It helps to know your oven…some ovens run hot, some not, sometimes you need to adjust for fan forced, sometimes not. It depends on your oven. Getting to know your oven in all its quirks can make a big differnce to the final outcome when baking, as you will know when to adjust cooking times and temps.
Most of my recipes I cook 180°C, usually fan forced. Below is a table showing you the conversion to Fahrenheit or Gas.Read More »About Oven Temps
Most baking powder contains grains as a mixer/filler so the recipes on grain free living combines sodium bicarbonate (also called baking soda) with cream of tarter to make a grain-free/filler free version.
Just use 1/2 tsp bicarb and 1 tsp cream of tarter to each cup of flour. Sometimes the recipe needs a little more or less.Read More »Make your own Baking Powder
In Australia, pototo starch and potato flour are the same thing: a very fine white powdery pure starch. Actually, potato flour and starch are different… Read More »Potato Starch/Potato Flour
In Australia, the terms tapioca and arrowroot are used interchangeably and mean the same thing. Sometimes its called a flour, sometimes its called a starch,… Read More »Tapioca/Arrowroot Flour/Starch
IMPORTANT NOTICE ABOUT GRAIN CONTAMINATION IN AMERICAN ICING SUGAR In Australia, there are two kinds of Icing Sugar. Pure Icing Sugar which is 100% powdered… Read More »Icing Sugar
Grain Free Living is based in Australia and uses metric measurements in all recipes. Conversions of oven temps are given in most recipes, or you can refer to these metric to imperial conversion charts for volume, weight and temperature.
Lots of people who can’t eat grains also have a problem with nuts – compromised immune systems often have multiple sensitivities and nuts are at the top of the tree for producing nasty reactions. Here are my tips for being grain free without nuts.
This website now includes links, references and recipes relating to FAILSAFE (FAILSAFE stands for Free of Additives, Low in Salicylates, Amines and Flavour Enhancers) eating… Read More »Failsafe Eating