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gluten-free Cooking Books

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swbailey Apprentice
swbailey
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I am trying to learn how to cook gluten-free, so for Christmas one thing I asked for was some gluten-free cooking books.

What do you think are some great gluten-free cookbooks? I would like to make sure I get some good books, instead of just starting with sub-par books.

Thank you very much for your help!!! B)

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MaryJones2 Enthusiast
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Bette Hagman's Gluten Free Gourmet Bakes Bread was a lot of help when I was learning to cook. Making gluten-free bread is so different and she has a lot of good info on flours and techniques in there. That is really the only gluten-free cookbook that I use. All of the other ones are mainstream and I just sub flours, etc.

lizard00 Enthusiast
lizard00
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I am trying to learn how to cook gluten-free, so for Christmas one thing I asked for was some gluten-free cooking books.

What do you think are some great gluten-free cookbooks? I would like to make sure I get some good books, instead of just starting with sub-par books.

Thank you very much for your help!!! B)

My new prize book is 1,000 Gluten Free Recipes by Carol Fenster.

Check it out!

angel-jd1 Community Regular
angel-jd1
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Analaise Roberts has an amazing cook book. It has wonderful baking recipes (cuppeycakes, cookies, biscuits etc). LOVE IT!! I use this book the most out of any that I own.

-Jessica

loco-ladi Contributor
loco-ladi
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It just came out but I have recently tried some of the recipes in the "Gluten free cooking for dummies" book by danna korn and like them, also adore her coffee cake recipe from "gluten free for dummies"

I also have about 12 others I use on a regular basis, most of bette hagman's and a couple from annalise roberts and carol fenster

SevenWishes Newbie
SevenWishes
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A general word of caution about gluten free cookbooks, however...I spent quite some time looking through them a few weeks back, and while of course they have a lot of good stuff in them, I also found several that pretty generously pad their pages with recipes for items that would not include wheat based products anyway. I saw several recipes for things like baked/roasted chicken with garlic or even fruit salad in some of the books. Unless I'm just some freak who wouldn't be putting wheat flour onto my chicken before baking it, or pouring wheat based brown gravy over it, or getting gluten into a bowl of chopped fruit mixed all up anyway, I didn't get the point for including these recipes. It's pretty obvious a bowl of fresh fruit isn't going to have gluten, isn't it? A chicken sprinkled with pepper and with garlic cloves stuffed under the skin doesn't normally have gluten in it anyway, so why bother including it in a book such as that?

I'd suggest carefully paging through the recipes to see how many of them really consciously get rid of gluten out of recipes that normally would have it in them, versus how many recipes are just there, and would be gluten free anyway.

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Juliebove
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A general word of caution about gluten free cookbooks, however...I spent quite some time looking through them a few weeks back, and while of course they have a lot of good stuff in them, I also found several that pretty generously pad their pages with recipes for items that would not include wheat based products anyway. I saw several recipes for things like baked/roasted chicken with garlic or even fruit salad in some of the books. Unless I'm just some freak who wouldn't be putting wheat flour onto my chicken before baking it, or pouring wheat based brown gravy over it, or getting gluten into a bowl of chopped fruit mixed all up anyway, I didn't get the point for including these recipes. It's pretty obvious a bowl of fresh fruit isn't going to have gluten, isn't it? A chicken sprinkled with pepper and with garlic cloves stuffed under the skin doesn't normally have gluten in it anyway, so why bother including it in a book such as that?

I'd suggest carefully paging through the recipes to see how many of them really consciously get rid of gluten out of recipes that normally would have it in them, versus how many recipes are just there, and would be gluten free anyway.

That's true and if you have additioinal allergies, that can further limit the amount of recipes you can use. I figure I am lucky if I can find one or two recipes per book that I can use.

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Sweetfudge Community Regular
Sweetfudge
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My favorite gluten-free cookbook is called "Life Tastes Good Again". It's by a couple of ladies that live in my town, and it rocks! They use Bette Hagman's flour mixes, and every recipe I've tried has turned out great. You can buy it at eatingglutenfree.com, and they also have a lot of their recipes posted there.

I also really like Annalise Roberts' "Gluten Free Baking Classics" cookbook. Although, I usually sub Bette Hagman's flour mixes into the recipes, just cuz they're what I keep on hand.

I asked Santa for "1,000 Gluten Free Recipes" by Carol Fenster, and I'm really excited. I've heard some good things about it (here's a review I stumbled upon the other day: Open Original Shared Link.

Good luck!

Kristin2 Newbie
Kristin2
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I like Carol Fensters Cooking Free as it is gluten, dairy, and egg free. Since we can't have any of these, it's been a great time saver. It has also taught me how to adjust recipes in the other books to exclude the dairy and eggs.

RDR Apprentice
RDR
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I also use Carol Fenster's cookbooks (have and love them all). I use her Sorghum/Tapioca Starch/Potato Starch mix to do most of my cooking/baking. My co-favorite is Roben Ryberg. I loved her first cookbook, just got her 2nd one and I'm loving it even more :D

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