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1. Miss Roben's has recently added several new products. They are:
Grandma's Spice Loaf, Pound cake, Rolling and Sugar Cookie, Pie crust,
Spice Raisin Cookie, White Cake Mix, Dark and hardy Bread, and their
bread mixes are now available in 1 1/2 pound loaves. They may be
contacted at: (800) 891-0083.
2. Dietary Specialties has recently added several new products. They
are: Apple Bread Mix (oven), Banana Bread Mix (oven), Mr Spice
Condiments (nine flavors), Calypso Chips (3 varieties of plantains
chips) and Dietary Specialties Pasta (Tri-Color Alphabets, Tri-Color
Shells, and Herb & Garlic Ziti). This year they also introduced 10
pound packages of flours (white, potato starch, and tapioca). They have
a cookbook for selected uses of their products. It costs $1.25 or $.90
when purchased in bulk by support groups. In January, a baked white
bread will be available. They may be contacted at: (800) 544-0099.
3. Lundberg Farms has a Brown Rice Syrup labeled GF. It is obtained
from Health Food stores.
4. Rice Sticks from Nature' Hilights is the new name for the "bread
sticks"originally available for Snack Cracks. This repackaging will
allow them to be sold in health food stores. For now they can be
ordered from Nature' Hilights, PO Box 3526, Chico, CA 95927, (800) 313-
6454.
5. Kellogg's Corn Pops is available in 3/4 ounce individual containers.
6. The November issue of Good Housekeeping has an article on Wheat Free
Baking. It states:
Now there are baking mixes for people sensitive to wheat or
gluten -a protein in wheat, oats, barley, and rye. Cooking
teacher Beth Hillson - who, along with her 8 year old son can't
digest gluten-has created a line of wheat-free/gluten-free mixes
for such goodies as sugar cookies, biscotti, even white and
challah bread (made with or without a bread machine). We were
especially pleased with the chocolate truffle brownies, among the
most decadent we've tasted in a long time. Priced at $3.95 to
$5.95, plus shipping. For a product list, write to The Gluten-
Free Pantry, P.O. Box 881, Glastonbury, CT 06033-0881 or call
203-633-3826.
7. Gillian's French Rolls are considered outstanding by many celiacs in
the NE. The frozen rolls contains white rice flour, tapioca flour,
water, soy flour, xanthan gum, yeast, salt, and sucanat. They may be
ordered by contacting: Gillian's French Roll, 145 Proctor Ave., Revere,
MA 02151 (617) 286-4095.
8. Red Star has licensed it name for use with a wonderful 1 1/2 pound
bread machine. The Red Star machine has a unique feature for baking
breads. Besides the mix only cycle; it allows a bake only cycle. The
use of the mix only and bake only cycles, avoids the second rising and
GF breads will now be larger. It is available from Wal-Mart and Home
Shopping Network (Nov 4-5). The price is less than $100.00.
9. West Bend Breadmaker models 41080 and 41040 are another choice for
the celiac. They are available from many department stores. They both
make 1 1/2 pound loaves and 41080 makes a traditional shape load.
Special mail order pricing is available until 12/31/95. The model 41080
is $211.95 and the model 41040 is $149.95. The address for ordering is
The West Bend Co., Breadmaker Offers, PO Box 2780, West Bend, WI 53095-
0278 (414) 334-2311.
10. Pasta Express, is highly recommended by several excellent celiac
cooks. This wonderful pasta machine will allow you to make pasta, at
home, at a reasonable price, that the nonceliacs will enjoy. The pasta
recipe was developed by Toni Richards. A trick for making pasta is
operating the machine until all of the dough is converted to pasta.
Unused pasta can be frozen until needed.
11. Dragon Toast is dried rice crystals for combining with water to
make moon crust. This unique rice-water combination is quickly cooked
in a waffle iron or in a skillet to make an open faced sandwich or a
pizza crust. The finished product is similar to a rice cake in
appearance and has many uses. In high humidity locations, the product
attracts moisture and care should be used in pieces stored for later
use. It can be ordered in one pound bags from: Little Market Moon, 715
SE 46th, Portland, OR 97215 (503) 232-8980.
12. Ready-to-Eat Vegetarian Indian Meals labeled "wheat- and gluten-
free are made and distributed by The Tamarind Tree, Ltd., P.O. Box 845,
Mahwah, NJ 07430. The company does not reply to ingredient requests but
the GF label has certain legal requirements.
13. Authentic Foods provides a wonderful line of products made from
ground California beans. This unique and tasty flour adds a variety and
a choice for those who must avoid rice. Their product line includes:
Bean Flour, Falafel Mix, Bean Burger Mix, Pancake & Muffin Mix, and
Chocolate Cake Mix. New items are: a Lemon Cake and a bread mix from
Bette Hagman scheduled for December. All of the products are available
in health food store boxes or money saving bulk.
They have developed a wonderful distribution plan that may be of
interest to celiac groups. A program of using a local support member to
consolidate and distribute orders at local meetings is being
established. For providing this service, of offering lower prices to
their members; the group and the local representative receive a
percentage of the sales. For additional details contact Steve Rice at
Authentic Foods, 1850 W. 169th St., Suite B, Gardena, Ca 90247, (310)
366-7612, Fax (310) 366-6938.
14. Processing Aids are:
ingredients added to improve (or, in some cases, allow) a food
product's manufacturing. According to 21 CFR 170.34, they
" enhance the appeal or utility of a food or food component,
including clarifying agents, clouding agents, catalysts,
flocculents, filter aids, and crystallization inhibitors, etc."
What sets them apart from other ingredients, however is the fact
that processing aids are not required to appear on the product
label if they meet one of three criteria:
o They are added to food during processing, but are removed in
some manner from the food before it is packaged in the finished
form. An example here might include the use of a hydrocolloid as
a filter aid in wine or beverage clarification. The processing
aid binds with flocculents, after which both are removed through
filtration.
o When added to a food, they are subsequently converted into
constituents normally present in the food, and do not
significantly increase the amount of the naturally occurring
constituents. Hydrogen peroxide is a good example of such a
processing aid. It can be used, for example, to bleach foods or
sterilize aseptic containers, yet heat causes it to break down
into water and oxygen - both commonly present in many foods.
o After being added for a functional benefit, the processing
aid is present in the finished food at insignificant level without
any functional effect in the food. Enzymes are frequently added
to baked products to relax the dough for better machining. After
baking, the residual enzyme level is low and non-functional,
qualifying it as a processing aid.ix
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