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Gluten Free Friday: laughs from the kitchen
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Changing the whole way a person bakes can be daunting! When you are told gee you can't have wheat, soy, or dairy I just about cried. After all I am from dairy farm country in Ohio. My grandfather had a dairy farm! Change was necessary so we did. There have been breads that would work nicely as hockey pucks. Cookies that turned to goo and ran all over my oven. But nothing beats a recent pancake fiasco! My hubby likes to triple recipes, try new recipes at big parties, you know the time fly by the seat of his pants. He also assumes that anything he makes that looks generally correct must taste fine. So hubby is making the pancakes while I mix up some new all purpose flour mix. The first pancakes come off the gridle and the baby is there crying for them. So we put her in the highchair to nibble on one while we finished. WHIZZZZ the pancake gets thrown back at hubby! Hubby scolds the baby picks it back up and puts a new pancake on her tray. WHIZZZZ another pancake goes flying. "Honey is there something wrong with the pancakes?" seemed like a good question to me. "Nothing they look great." As hubby continues to make more. I stepped over and tasted one YUCK! They tasted like baking powder, bitter and nasty. The entire batter tasted like that. Putting our heads together we assumed that one of the helpful herd of kiddos had added baking powder into the mix when we weren't looking. So we throw it out and try again. This batch is wow fluffy and growing. Tastes....YUCK!! Remember when I said that I was mixing a all purpose flour mix? Sam's changed the outer wrapper on the baking powder now it looked like the cornstarch. sigh I had to throw out over 20 cups of all purpose (baking powder) mix. At that point we decided to give up and get breakfast on the go. While we were getting our shoes on, there was a scream from the kitchen. One of the kids had found the forgotten second batch of pancake mix. I was growing, and growing, and growing.... It had overgrown the bowl and was trying to eat the stove. That is one of those memories that will get rehashed every Thanksgiving for the rest of my life, but it's a good one! ;) happy gluten free baking! |
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