Easy Wheat, Egg and Milk Free Cooking. Rita Greer
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Contents
3 Planning a Diet Without Wheat, Milk and Eggs
5 Shopping and the Store Cupboard
6 Starting Quickly with Wheat, Milk and Egg-free
7 Wheat, Milk and Egg-free Basics
13 Wheat, Milk and Egg-free Menus
Wheat, milk and eggs are probably the three most common allergens (allergy-causing agents) in the Western diet today. They are ‘staples’ and are eaten every day by most of us in some form. While some people may be allergic to just one of these items, others less fortunate may be allergic to all three. As they play such an important part in the structure of our diet, a food regime which excludes them needs to be carefully balanced to replace their valuable nutrients.
The author has had personal and practical experience of catering for a special diet which cuts out wheat, milk and eggs, and the results of her research in the form of information and recipes has proved to be a lifeline for people on similar diets. This book gives a broad outline of the problem of cooking without these foods, and it offers practical advice, including a wide range of recipes, on how to cope with what may at first appear to be an impossible diet to follow.
Wheat
For most people wheat is a wonderful food! It is cheap, easy to grow and harvest, is highly nutritious and extremely versatile, keeps well and tastes good. One of its most interesting qualities is that when liquid is added to wheat flour it will make a very elastic dough that can be shaped and baked. It will also thicken, make smooth and bind other ingredients. We eat wheat mainly in the form of bread and other bakery products. It is also widely used in a variety of products from instant desserts to Communion wafers.
If you see one of the following items listed as an ingredient in a manufactured food, then it may well contain wheat and should be avoided.
Cracked wheat
Durum wheat
Kibbled wheat
Semolina
Wheat
Wheat berries
Wheat bran
Wheat flakes
Wheat flour
Wheat germ (and oil)
Wheat protein
Wheat starch
Wheatmeal
Wholegrain wheat
Any food that lists one or more of the following ingredients on the label may contain wheat:
Binder
Cereal
Cereal protein
Corn
Cornstarch (UK)
Flour
Food starch
Modified starch
MSG (monosodium glutamate), often made from wheat starch
Rusk
Special edible starch
Starch
Thickener
Thickening
Vegetable protein
Contamination