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Howdy,

When I see an interesting recipe come through this list I copy it to try it
later. This recipe was a total failure:

 Calzone recipe

 

1/4 cup white rice flour

1/2 cup tapioca starch

1/4 tsp xanthan gum

1/2 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

2/3 cup water

1 egg, lightly beaten.

 

In a large bowl, combine the above ingredients.

Shape in Calzones, and bake in preheated oven 350 F 20 minutes.  Let cool
completely.

 

It was watery like milk. The only shape it could take was a puddle. To
attempt to keep from wasting all these ingredients I increased the rice
flour by double and the tapioca by ½, added more xanthan gum, ¼ cup sorghum
flour and 1 tsp baking powder. It finally made a shapeable mass. After 20
minutes at 350° the blobs doubled and have a pasty white color. They taste a
little like a biscuit.

They are ugly and dry tasting. I didn’t save the posters address to ask them
directly. What is a calzone shape? Is this posted recipe correct? Does it
ever look browned on top or should it be brushed with whole egg to make it
brown and shiny? What texture should  it be after mixing when it is correct.
The only ones that I have seen in Pizza Parlors are like big fried pies made
with pizza dough and filled with pizza ingredients. In Spanish calzone means
underwear.  

 

A problem I have repeatedly with GF recipes on this list and on the GF mixes
are that they need three times the baking time as they the recipe calls for.
A yellow cake made with mayonnaise had batter like interior in the
recommended time. The toothpick test extended the cooking by another 30
minutes. I cook for a living and have been baking for 40 years and know how
to follow directions.. This is a mystery how commercial baking mixes sold at
Health Food Stores can have recipes that don’t work. Learning how to cook GF
is like learning how to cook all over again. 

 

If I get interesting responses I will summarize and post to the list. 

 

Dave Ross in Texas

 

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