Gluten Free Products

Biscotti takes its name from being baked twice. The dough is first baked whole, then sliced and returned to the oven; the second bake drives off the remaining moisture and gives the biscuit its chara…

Almond biscotti is the oldest form of this biscuit in Italy; in the classic recipe whole or broken almonds go into the dough, and slicing cuts through them so they appear in the cut face. The result …

The bar format is an answer to a specific problem in snacking: something that can be eaten while walking, driving or working at a desk. Biscuits leave crumbs and cake needs a fork; a bar comes out of…

What someone moving to a gluten-free diet misses most is often not a special product but a familiar taste. Nigella carries that familiarity: it is the seed everyone knows from the top of simit, poğaç…

The core technical problem of gluten-free baking is binding. In wheat dough, gluten builds an elastic network that holds everything together; without that network the mixture falls apart easily and t…

Not every product is expected to shine on its own; some exist to bring out what sits beside them. The plain savoury cookie belongs to that second group. Carrying no pronounced spice or seed note, it …

The difference between a cracker and a cookie is not only thickness. Cookie dough carries a high proportion of fat and sugar, producing a soft texture that crumbles in the bite; in a cracker the fat …

During weaning, families choose products with great care; the ingredient list is read line by line and nothing unfamiliar is accepted. Where there is coeliac disease in the family or a doctor has rec…

What separates granola from an ordinary cereal mix is its clustered structure. The mixture is moistened with a liquid binder, spread on a tray and dried in the oven; as it bakes the grains stick toge…

In granola production, when the dried fruit is added decides the outcome. If it goes into the oven with the mixture it dries further, hardens and darkens; stirred in after baking, it keeps its own mo…

Slivered pistachio is pistachio cut lengthways into thin strips, used in pastry work mostly for its appearance. Because it is thin, it covers a wide area when scattered over a surface; the same quant…

The hardest task in gluten-free baking is imitating rise and elasticity; light structures such as bread and sponge depend on gluten's network. Brownie falls outside that list: its recipe already aims…