A Fantastic Flour Mix

[Ginaaaaaa]

Originally Posted by Nikki2777

Ginaaaaaa... What a beautiful coconut cupcake and thanks for giving the directions for one serving. Also, a big thanks to Ouizoid for this remarkable flour mix and all the posters for their suggestions and ideas.

I have been reading this thread (A Fantastic Flour Mix) all morning and I'm only on Page 18. I have to stop and have breakfast (which is now lunch-time) and get some work done. I would love to have kept reading, but I notice that this goes on until Page 32 (or more).

I want to make the coconut cupcake, but I have to get a few ingredients (the coconut flour and Erythritol). Where can I buy Erythritol... a vitamin store, health foods' store, or Whole Foods?

Again, thanks all!

Nikki

You might find this thread easier to read. I copied all the recipes and tips with links from this post so you don't have to sift through this entire post to find them.
Fantastic Flour Mix Big Batch & Recipes
I buy erythritol online at netrition.

[whoknew]

I have been making Barbo's First Draft Cornbread (Barbo's First Draft Corn Bread LC) and using 1/2 cup of Jen's Bake mix instead of Carbquik. Last night, I subbed out the bake mix with Better Than Flour - - lighter, corn taste came through better! Barbo's cornbread is just even more awesome!! (Shout out to Barbo -- hope you heal quickly!!!)

This morning, I made Chicken Lady's Almond Flour Fudge Cake and subbed out 2/3 cup of the almond flour for the Better Than Flour -- just curious! The BTF seemed to make it lighter. I did add 1/4 c 1/2 and 1/2 and 1/4 c HWC to get the batter to a consistency of not quite brownie batter. Turned out alright for donuts and mini-cakes. (sorry, no camera-no pics) dianne

[rosethorns]

Barbo I hope you feel better soon.( no chemo ?I hope)

I haven't made this corn bread yet . I think I'll go look at it.Thanks.

[Tweaker Geek]

Originally Posted by Ginaaaaaa

Yes 2 tsp baking powder in the crust and 2 tbsp of flour mix in the sauce.

Thanks, Gina.

[Tweaker Geek]

I made a buttermilk biscuit for breakfast this morning, I just used a 1/3 cup flour mix (made with almond flour and unflavored protein powder), a pinch of salt, 1/8 tsp. extra baking powder, 1 Tbsp. cold butter and 2-4 Tbs. buttermilk. Shaped into 2 biscuits and baked on a small baking pan in toaster oven. I got 2 lovely biscuits out of this, ate one for breakfast just warm out of the oven with butter; I think the other will be a bacon, egg and cheese biscuit tomorrow.

I am so happy to have a quick way to make just a biscuit or two; I love them but don't always want to make a full recipe. They are best right out of the oven IMO. I used to use Bakewell Cream in my biscuits, they came out very tall and fluffy, this is the closest I've come with a low carb one. I am one happy camper!!

[Ginaaaaaa]

Hey guys, I was hoping that we could keep the recipe discussions in the original thread and just post recipes in the sticky thread, that way we can find recipes easily.

If a recipe or tip gets posted in the original thread I will copy it onto the sticky thread.

How does that sound to everyone?

[ouizoid]

Originally Posted by Ginaaaaaa

Hey guys, I was hoping that we could keep the recipe discussions in the original thread and just post recipes in the sticky thread, that way we can find recipes easily.

If a recipe or tip gets posted in the original thread I will copy it onto the sticky thread.

How does that sound to everyone?

Anything for Our Archivist!

[rosethorns]

Originally Posted by Ginaaaaaa

Hey guys, I was hoping that we could keep the recipe discussions in the original thread and just post recipes in the sticky thread, that way we can find recipes easily.

If a recipe or tip gets posted in the original thread I will copy it onto the sticky thread.

How does that sound to everyone?

Yep!!

[Ginaaaaaa]

Originally Posted by ouizoid

Anything for Our Archivist!

Thanks Ouis lol I just hate to see the sticky thread get like this one, making it impossible to find the recipes and tips.

I guess I could always ask Cheri to add the new recipes and tips to the front. I don't want you all to think I'm getting bossy or anything lol

[ouizoid]

gina--maybe they should make you a Mod!

[Ginaaaaaa]

Originally Posted by ouizoid

gina--maybe they should make you a Mod!

That would be neat but I'm not sure if I qualify.

[Ginaaaaaa]

I made Callieco's bread the other day so I could make French toast with it and it got rave reviews from my DD who is 21 and picky and my teenage son. I loved it also!!

Here's her recipe!

A Fantastic Flour Mix

[drjlocarb]

I tried a yeast bread experiment today. Not so good. No rise, but good yeast flavor.

[sungoddess]

Originally Posted by drjlocarb

I tried a yeast bread experiment today. Not so good. No rise, but good yeast flavor.

Oh do keep trying this! I would love to make a loaf of yeast bread from this mix!

[Ginaaaaaa]

Originally Posted by drjlocarb

I tried a yeast bread experiment today. Not so good. No rise, but good yeast flavor.

I don't think this flour mix will work as a yeast bread. You won't get any sort of rise with this flour because there's no gluten.

I used this flour mix in a quick and easy pizza crust recipe that has yeast in it but it doesn't have a rise time, just mix it up and let it sit for 5 minutes and roll it out. It did have a yeast taste just doesn't rise.

[sungoddess]

Originally Posted by Ginaaaaaa

I don't think this flour mix will work as a yeast bread. You won't get any sort of rise with this flour because there's no gluten.

I used this flour mix in a quick and easy pizza crust recipe that has yeast in it but it doesn't have a rise time, just mix it up and let it sit for 5 minutes and roll it out. It did have a yeast taste just doesn't rise.

Could you explain that a bit further Gina? I don't want to waste my time playing around with something that can't work, but I do make a gluten free bread with yeast that is great and it rises just fine.

It has rice flour, tapioca flour, xanthan gum, salt, sugar, water, rapid rise yeast, butter, egg whites, and vinegar.

In a gluten-free class I took they suggested eggs to boost the rise and volume of bread and also suggested substituting carbonated water or gluten free beer as the carbon dioxide bubbles increased volume in the bread.

I would love to see if this mix could be used as I don't want to use the rice flour. But maybe coconut flour and almond flour are too dense/heavy.

[drjlocarb]

I added VWG and 8000. It did knead and I let it rise and bake. No go. Good yeast flavor, but not a bread.

[Ginaaaaaa]

Originally Posted by sungoddess

Could you explain that a bit further Gina? I don't want to waste my time playing around with something that can't work, but I do make a gluten free bread with yeast that is great and it rises just fine.

It has rice flour, tapioca flour, xanthan gum, salt, sugar, water, rapid rise yeast, butter, egg whites, and vinegar.

In a gluten-free class I took they suggested eggs to boost the rise and volume of bread and also suggested substituting carbonated water or gluten free beer as the carbon dioxide bubbles increased volume in the bread.

I would love to see if this mix could be used as I don't want to use the rice flour. But maybe coconut flour and almond flour are too dense/heavy.

I'm sorry, I meant starch not gluten. No gluten or starch. I don't think it's possible to make a yeast bread without gluten or starch.

I don't think yeast will work without either a gluten or starch but I could be wrong.

I eat low carb, so I wouldn't use any of those flours you mentioned and I don't know of any gluten/starch free flours that would work as a yeast bread.

See this is what happens when you have a zillion recipes saved to try!!

I just remembered I have a yeast bread roll recipe from Lauren at Healthy Indulgences that I saved to try sometime. Just google her name and Healthy Bread Rolls is the name of the recipe. It obviously doesn't use this mix but maybe it can be tweaked to work with it. It's gluten and grain free.

[CarenL]

Originally Posted by whoknew

I have been making Barbo's First Draft Cornbread (Barbo's First Draft Corn Bread LC) and using 1/2 cup of Jen's Bake mix instead of Carbquik. Last night, I subbed out the bake mix with Better Than Flour - - lighter, corn taste came through better! Barbo's cornbread is just even more awesome!! (Shout out to Barbo -- hope you heal quickly!!!)

I tried chicken lady's cornbread (which we totally love) subbing 1 cup of the almond flour with 1 cup of weezies btf mix. Used 25 drops of stevia and 1-1/2 tbs swerve. Added an egg because of the coconut flour in ouzoids mix. Used coconut oil for the oil. Soaked the ground cornmeal in 1 cup of boiling water for about 1 hour then processed in Cuisinart. Added 2 tbs powdered milk and 2 tbs hwc as that is in the low carb milk in the original recipe. I haz an anxiety because I did not dissolve the swerve in the liquid ingredients and hope it doesn’t crystalize and ruin everything. Fingers crossed!

[CarenL]

Originally Posted by CarenL

I tried chicken lady's cornbread (which we totally love) subbing 1 cup of the almond flour with 1 cup of weezies btf mix. Used 25 drops of stevia and 1-1/2 tbs swerve. Added an egg because of the coconut flour in ouzoids mix. Used coconut oil for the oil. Soaked the ground cornmeal in 1 cup of boiling water for about 1 hour then processed in Cuisinart. Added 2 tbs powdered milk and 2 tbs hwc as that is in the low carb milk in the original recipe. I haz an anxiety because I did not dissolve the swerve in the liquid ingredients and hope it doesn’t crystalize and ruin everything. Fingers crossed!

Yay! I finally got the loft that I haven't been able to achieve with almond flour and baking powder alone!

It's a tad dry - maybe 450 degree oven is too much. Next time ill throw in another egg? In the meantime, I'll have to smother it in butter!!! oh darn!

So happy!!

[rosethorns]

Caren That is beautiful. I use the canned baby corn in her recipe , it works great.

I getting ready to make some because I make her bread and use some of it to make corndogs. Yummy!!! Now I'm going to try it the way you did it.

[PaminKY]

Originally Posted by rosethorns

Caren That is beautiful. I use the canned baby corn in her recipe , it works great.

I getting ready to make some because I make her bread and use some of it to make corndogs. Yummy!!! Now I'm going to try it the way you did it.

How much baby corn do you use for a full recipe. I almost never make a full recipe, I usually half it and bake it in a 8" skillet. Perfect for me and my husband's dinner plus leftovers for his lunch the next day.

[CarenL]

Originally Posted by rosethorns

Caren That is beautiful. I use the canned baby corn in her recipe , it works great.

I getting ready to make some because I make her bread and use some of it to make corndogs. Yummy!!! Now I'm going to try it the way you did it.

I wanted to try barbos recipe with the canned baby corn, but didn't have any. So i decided to soak the ground corn and use chicken lady's version. Do you mean you use the canned corn in barbos or chicken lady's recipe?

Is canned baby corn considered more a vegetable than a grain? We are trying to avoid grains - but we are trying to be realistic about it. You can go half nuts trying to leave out every potential bad food.

[rosethorns]

Originally Posted by PaminKY

How much baby corn do you use for a full recipe. I almost never make a full recipe, I usually half it and bake it in a 8" skillet. Perfect for me and my husband's dinner plus leftovers for his lunch the next day.

I don't make a full recipe either Pam. My smaller cast iron skillet is also
8".Love it. I grind up 1 small can of Dynasty baby corn drained. I haven't done it in a while. I plan on making it this week. I think I used 1/2 of her recipe to make it.

[rosethorns]

Originally Posted by CarenL

I wanted to try barbos recipe with the canned baby corn, but didn't have any. So i decided to soak the ground corn and use chicken lady's version. Do you mean you use the canned corn in barbos or chicken lady's recipe?

Is canned baby corn considered more a vegetable than a grain? We are trying to avoid grains - but we are trying to be realistic about it. You can go half nuts trying to leave out every potential bad food.

I consider it a vegetable not grain. LOL welcome to my world Caren I have to avoid a lot. Grains are not my friend, I tread lightly until I know if I can eat it. I've always used the baby corn to get the flavor I want.

I looked at Barbos and it looks great.

I used it in Chicken lady's recipe.

[PaminKY]

Is the small can you refer to the 15-16 oz size or is there a smaller size I'm not aware of.

I've done a lot of research and reading about baby corn and have considered growing my own but one thing I learned is that baby corn hasn't developed the starch that is present in mature corn. You can use the same seeds but there are a few varieties that are better suited for it.

[CindyCRNA]

Originally Posted by PaminKY

Is the small can you refer to the 15-16 oz size or is there a smaller size I'm not aware of.

I've done a lot of research and reading about baby corn and have considered growing my own but one thing I learned is that baby corn hasn't developed the starch that is present in mature corn. You can use the same seeds but there are a few varieties that are better suited for it.

I have seen little 6-8oz cans.

[rosethorns]

Originally Posted by PaminKY

Is the small can you refer to the 15-16 oz size or is there a smaller size I'm not aware of.

I've done a lot of research and reading about baby corn and have considered growing my own but one thing I learned is that baby corn hasn't developed the starch that is present in mature corn. You can use the same seeds but there are a few varieties that are better suited for it.

I'd love to hear about your growing the baby corn. It doesn't make the starch or grain until maturity. That's why I can eat it.

Size----- Cindy has it. They are 6 to 8 oz. mine is 7oz. But I also have the 15oz. can and I would use half. I just quessed when I made hers and it was enough.Hope that helps Pam.

I am amking dairy free yogurt right now.

[PaminKY]

Originally Posted by rosethorns

I'd love to hear about your growing the baby corn. It doesn't make the starch or grain until maturity. That's why I can eat it.

Size----- Cindy has it. They are 6 to 8 oz. mine is 7oz. But I also have the 15oz. can and I would use half. I just quessed when I made hers and it was enough.Hope that helps Pam.

I am amking dairy free yogurt right now.

Helps a lot, thanks. Please share your dairy-free yogurt method when you have a chance.

[rosethorns]

Originally Posted by PaminKY

Helps a lot, thanks. Please share your dairy-free yogurt method when you have a chance.

Sure Pam its on here.

Dairy Free Yogurt

I use the coconut and cashew one mostly. To me it taste better for unsweeten and sweeten.There are 2 recipes on this thread.