Grains, Starches and Pulses.
Always check the labels for ingredients and cross-contamination warnings if you are on the diet for coeliac disease.
What can you use for baking? It depends a lot on where you live and how easily you can access a good supermarket or online specialist retailer. These are the grains, starches and pulses I use most often, shopping in a small Scottish town .You can make flours by grinding grains using a special milling attachment for your mixer, or for small amounts, whizz them up in a clean coffee grinder.
Rice
Cornflour (American equivalent is corn-starch)
Coconut
Arrowroot flour
Gram flour (sold as gluten free)
Corn couscous for "free from" diets
Tinned pulses eg green lentils, beans.
Pasta made from corn rice or lentils and sold as gluten free.
Gluten free flour mix: plain, self raising, or breadmaking is stocked by good small supermarkets.
Also useful as flour or paste for baking: nuts: ground walnuts or hazelnuts, chestnut puree, ground almonds.
Things to beware of: some naturally gluten free products come in packaging which warns of potential contamination with a gluten containing grain. Examples I see locally are polenta and dried pulses and dried beans, quinoa.
In large city supermarkets and specialist stores you will have access to a wider range of safe products and also other grains e.g. teff, sorghum, tapioca, potato flour,certified gluten free buckwheat flour, maize and mas harina, quinoa, dried beans and pulses, a wider range of gluten free pastas and noodles made from different grains.
What can you use for baking? It depends a lot on where you live and how easily you can access a good supermarket or online specialist retailer. These are the grains, starches and pulses I use most often, shopping in a small Scottish town .You can make flours by grinding grains using a special milling attachment for your mixer, or for small amounts, whizz them up in a clean coffee grinder.
Rice
Cornflour (American equivalent is corn-starch)
Coconut
Arrowroot flour
Gram flour (sold as gluten free)
Corn couscous for "free from" diets
Tinned pulses eg green lentils, beans.
Pasta made from corn rice or lentils and sold as gluten free.
Gluten free flour mix: plain, self raising, or breadmaking is stocked by good small supermarkets.
Also useful as flour or paste for baking: nuts: ground walnuts or hazelnuts, chestnut puree, ground almonds.
Things to beware of: some naturally gluten free products come in packaging which warns of potential contamination with a gluten containing grain. Examples I see locally are polenta and dried pulses and dried beans, quinoa.
In large city supermarkets and specialist stores you will have access to a wider range of safe products and also other grains e.g. teff, sorghum, tapioca, potato flour,certified gluten free buckwheat flour, maize and mas harina, quinoa, dried beans and pulses, a wider range of gluten free pastas and noodles made from different grains.
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