Friday, January 8, 2010

Bread Pudding (GF/DF)

You could probably use any day old gluten free bread for this recipe, but I used Sweet Potato Pineapple muffins and it turned out really good.

Sweet Potato Pineapple Bread/Muffins (From Living Without magazine):

1/2 cup sorghum flour
1/2 cup potato starch
1/2 cup tapioca starch
1/2 cup brown rice flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 TBS baking powder
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp ground ginger
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp xanthan gum
1 1/2 cups shredded raw sweet potato
2 eggs
1/3 cup oil
1 (8 oz) can crushed pineapple
1 tsp grated lemon rind
3 TBS honey
1 tsp vanilla

Preheat oven to 350F. Grease and dust a muffin pan and a small bread loaf pan. Combine all dry ingredients. In a separate bowl combine all wet ingredients. Mix the dry and wet ingredients well and spoon into prepared pans. Bake for 30min or until done. Remove and let cool 10min. before placing on wire racks.

*This recipe is not very sweet, but it works fine for the bread pudding. Add several stevia liquid drops to the wet ingredients or sugar to taste if you want to eat the muffins/bread alone or serve with honey. You may have to adjust the liquid slightly if you add sugar.

Bread Pudding:

7-9 day old muffins
2 TBS butter (Earth Balance buttery spread for DF)
1/2 cup raisins
4 eggs, beaten
2 cups coconut milk
3/4 cup maple sugar (or white sugar) + a few drops stevia liquid
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp vanilla

Preheat oven to 350F. Cut the muffins into bite sized cubes. Place in a 9"x9" pan, so it is about half to 3/4 full. Drizzle melted butter over bread. Sprinkle with raisins. Combine all other ingredients and mix well. Pour over bread and lightly push down with a fork until bread is covered and soaking up the egg mixture. Bake 45 min. or until the top springs back when lightly tapped.

4 comments:

Heather said...

Hi there, I was wondering if you could tell me why you are doing the GF/DF diet? Especially after having the NAET treatments a while back? Thanks!

JenniferBradford said...
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JenniferBradford said...

My youngest son has a severe intolerance to dairy and gluten. If he consumes either it results in severe diarrhea if consumed (one serving of dairy = 2 weeks of diarrhea). He received NAET treatments because he was suffering from head to toe eczema as an infant (6mo old). At that time we were told that his alergy to those and many more substances was cured. The NAET treatments aleviated the skin condition, but not the diarrhea. We did not follow a restrictive diet for about a year after the treatments. He was losing weight and lethargic (failure to thrive). It took quite a long time for me to realize that those two specific food groups were causing the problem because I was told he could consume them. Anyway, we have been D.F. and G.F. for over a year and he is doing much better. Also, NAET treatments do wear off over time and have to be repeated if symptom return.

JenniferBradford said...

I forgot to mention that my older son was so congested from eating dairy (primarily) and gluten that he was unable to breath through his nose. His tonsils and adenoids were very swollen. He even started to suffer from sleep apnea. Since we've take him off dairy and gluten he has improved much. He is now no longer a "mouth breather" and the sleep apnea is gone. Another good reason to give up both.