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I've been trying to be Wheat/gluten free since I discovered my aches and pains and feet problems stem from eating wheat.
But I miss biscuits. I think the biscuit connection is from my Southern roots. And there are some meals that biscuits are the perfect accompaniment. And biscuits with butter and jelly -- ah, heaven!
So, anyone try a gluten or wheat free biscuit that isn't dry as cardboard and hard as a tack? Similar to wheat filled biscuits?
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I've made cornbread with cornmeal and masa (corn flour) in place of the wheat flour and it came out really good. If you like corn bread could you maybe make a biscuit with that?
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What a great thread to start! Not that we eat a lot of biscuits, but we have recently discovered gluten challenges in our family...   No fun! The biggest challenge will be getting my mother-in-law to accept new cooking strategies and recipes. She fights change and I doubt she will comply in anyway. God love her!
I'm looking forward to hearing other responses!
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Jenn, I posted some wheat-free scones in 2006 on my blog and I've fiddled with it off and on -- I do list amaranth flour on there which through the years I've found is rather heavy and not something I like in baked items that should be light. I'll try to post a gluten-free biscuit sometime soon.
Meanwhile, tadaa!! If you guys want to look, I had just posted earlier this afternoon our new gluten-free menu -- it's mostly Asian, but if you're interested in anything I'll be happy to provide the recipe.
We went gluten free a long time ago, for about 6 months, and afterwards maintained a *mostly* wheat-free lifestyle -- easy to do because we're Filipino and eat rice all the time -- but my hubby is still suffering from allergies and recently had a bad breakout so I'm thinking we need to eliminate ALL gluten -- so the oats, barley, and rye have to go as well. I wasn't looking forward to it as the kids love their bread and granola, but once I put the 31-day menu together it started looking more doable to me.
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Would you like a muffin recipe? Have a great muffin one.
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I keep forgetting the term Americans use for biscuits is unique.
here is an example of a Southern biscuit recipe, with a photo. Biscuits are a shortening/butter and flour mix usually with milk/buttermilk with baking powder and baking soda as the rising agents. They are mixed like pie pastry, and cut and baked -- no kneading or rising requiring, but they aren't a quick bread or batter mix, usually.
But I'll take a muffin recipe anyday, Erin!
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Oh, I do miss biscuits! And I have tried, but am not yet successful in re-creating a gluten-free version. Try as I may, they always turn out like hockey pucks.
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These coconut flour biscuits aren't bad. You can also make them with some cheese and garlic powder and those turn out yummy too. They're not quite the same as regular biscuits, but they do sop up gravy quite nicely!
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Jenn,
I was going to try and make biscuits with the einkorn flour I just got. Not "gluten free" but it might be something you can tolerate. I'll let you know how they turn out.
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I just had a light bulb moment! when you say biscuits you don't mean cookies do you?? Your biscuits are scones or something like that??
ETA; the problem with not reading replies  you being smarter had already worked out my translantic issues   Definitely scones. I'll go and chat to ds I think he has an almond flour scone, sorry biscuit recipe.
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Erin wrote:
I just had a light bulb moment! when you say biscuits you don't mean cookies do you?? Your biscuits are scones or something like that??
ETA; the problem with not reading replies you being smarter had already worked out my translantic issues Definitely scones. I'll go and chat to ds I think he has an almond flour scone, sorry biscuit recipe. |
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Except that I have never had a scone that tasted like a good southern buttermilk biscuit. So I guess it sort of the same, but not really. 
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Claire F wrote:
| These coconut flour biscuits aren't bad. You can also make them with some cheese and garlic powder and those turn out yummy too. They're not quite the same as regular biscuits, but they do sop up gravy quite nicely! |
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I agree. I happened to try these coconut flour biscuits last week that were pretty good. They turned out more like my grandmother's biscuits (drier)and less like mine or my mothers (fluffier), but they were tasty. I only had a small taste (they contain egg), but the boys liked them.
I also cooked them in muffin tins to make them taller and shaped more like a biscuit (they don't rise much, so they never quite made it to looking like muffins, still very biscuit shaped). I plan to experiment a little with adding arrowroot and a bit of milk to see if they come out a little lighter.
Have you tried a good quality gluten free flour blend with your regular biscuit recipe? I have not, but I've heard that some of them can be used as a direct substitute for AP flour with little variation. Theresa (LaPaz) mentioned somewhere (maybe not here?) that she found one she likes.
Also, while it has other junk and isn't the same thing as homemade, I'm pretty sure that Bisquick makes a gluten free blend that might fill a craving in a pinch.
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I don't know if Namaste brand makes biscuits, but I have enjoyed everything they make.
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CrunchyMom wrote:
Have you tried a good quality gluten free flour blend with your regular biscuit recipe? I have not, but I've heard that some of them can be used as a direct substitute for AP flour with little variation. Theresa (LaPaz) mentioned somewhere (maybe not here?) that she found one she likes.
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I use Gluten-Free Mama's Almond blend and have had great luck with it for most things. Just not biscuits.
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Also, while it has other junk and isn't the same thing as homemade, I'm pretty sure that Bisquick makes a gluten free blend that might fill a craving in a pinch. |
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They don't sell it at the grocery here, so I haven't had an opportunity to try that yet. Maybe I can order it from Amazon? Has anyone tried it?
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