Book: The Allergen-Free Baker's Handbook
January 20, 2010
The latest cooking book of Cybele Pascal includes 100 vegan recipes easy to prepare and safe for people who suffer of food allergies.
'The Allergen-Free Baker's Handbook: How to Bake Without Gluten, Wheat, Dairy, Eggs, Soy, Peanuts, Tree Nuts, or Sesame' is a great reference guide to keep in your kitchen. People with severe and multiple food allergies will agree that eating desserts can be difficult and sometimes, impossible. Higher risks of cross-contamination in restaurants or allergen warnings on food labels are major factors to consider when ordering a slice of cake in a restaurant or buying a cookie at a coffee house.
If you are still looking for a safer option, bake allergen-free recipes is the best solution with the desserts available in this handbook. Cybele Pascal, a food writer, a well-known chef and the author of the bestselling cookbook ‘Whole Foods Allergy Cookbook' understands the complexity of living with food allergies. Her sons and husband suffer of severe food allergies, and as a result she creates some delicious treats and recipes with the same tastes as the non-allergen foods.
‘The Allergen-Free Baker's Handbook' is very well-presented with colourful illustrations and well-written directives for each recipe. At the beginning of the book, the chapter 1 provides clear instructions on ‘How to stock your allergen-free pantry' with a complete listing of all the ingredients for baking the 100 allergen-free recipes from this handbook. In addition, the chapter 2 provides further information on ‘How to bake allergen-free'. It is very important to understand the complexity of baking without allergens and what will happen when you substitute food. The author suggests some useful tips for replacing the most common allergens such as eggs, dairy, nuts and some flours. Finally, the last section of the cookbook is a list of useful resources which includes product brands, allergen-free and gluten-free online stores, equipment sources, addresses and organizations for people with food allergies and celiac disease.
The author presents 100 recipes from muffins, scones, biscuits, quick breads, coffee cakes, cookies, cakes, pies, tarts, crisps, crumbles, cobblers, puddings, betties and buckles. The recipes are easy to prepare with ingredients available in your pantry or at your local supermarket or health food store. We had a slightly favorite recipe named ‘Quebec Maple Date Cookies' (page 79), as we love to bake with maple syrup, a great substitute to refined sugar. For a special occasion such as birthday party, school play or other activities which includes foods, Cybele Pascal' recipes are perfect and allergen-free! For more information about the author and her cookbooks, visit her website at www.cybelepascal.com.
Please note that with permission from the author and the Crown Publishing Group, we have posted three recipes from 'The Allergen-Free Baker's Handbook: How to Bake Without Gluten, Wheat, Dairy, Eggs, Soy, Peanuts, Tree Nuts, or Sesame'.
Blueberry Boy Bait
Cherry Oat Scones
Maple Apple Crumble
Source:
www.cybelepascal.com