Can I remove nuts from the recipe section of Breaking the Vicious Cycle

[ReguIarCeliac]

Almost every recipe in Breaking the Vicious Cycle (2020 edition) lists tree nuts like almonds or almond flour as an ingredient, I have a fatal tree nut allergy, can I remove the tree nuts from each recipe in the entire book, or are the tree nuts and tree nut flours required?

I want to start dieting from the book's recipes, but just about every single recipe I looked at said to use tree nuts or tree nut flour as an ingredient.

Note: I have no allergy to peanuts/coconuts/etc. (only tree nuts).

[Scott Adams]

I doubt anyone could give you a single answer that would satisfy every recipe in the book, as I believe that each recipe would require its own approach with how to replace any main ingredient used in it.

To me it sounds like you might need to get a different book that does not use nut flours as a basis, but I’m sure you could figure out a way to replace nut flour in each recipe in the book, but it would take some time to figure it out.

[RMJ]

I looked in a great gluten free cookbook (from America’s Test Kitchen) which explains why they put in the ingredients they do.  Here are some reasons they have for using almond flour in baking recipes:

• Less starchy.
• More “chew”.
• Add richness without greasiness (gluten free flours sometimes don’t absorb the fats as well as wheat flour).
• Contributes richness, heft and fat.

So going the other way, I would guess that if you omit the almond flour in baking, you might have results that are starchier, softer texture, greasier, and less rich.