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1. G! Foods has available several low-fat cookies. The Anise Butter Cookie
has six grams of fat and the Lowfat Anise has three grams. G! Foods, 3536
17th St., San Francisco, CA 94110, (415) 255-1442.
2. Goodie's has opened their restaurant at the bakery (7217 Melrose Ave., Los
Angeles, CA 90046, (213) 934-3001). In addition, they now offer Bohemian
White Bread Rounds and two sugar & lactose-free cookies (Chocolate Nicoles,
Millicent Blueberry). Their other products were discussed in the January 95
issue.
3. The Gluten Free Cookie Jar is operated by a family of six celiacs. They
use Ener-G Foods rice flour in their products and is endorsed by the Greater
Philadelphia Celiac Sprue Group. They offer 23 different cookies, breads,
muffins, rolls, and cakes. There are also a Goodie of the Month plan. For
details contact them at: PO Box 52, Trevose, PA 19053, (215) 355-9403.
4. Food by George Spinach and Ravioli are available nationwide from Garden
Spot Distributors, (800) 829-5100. These pastas require refrigeration.
Garden Spot also carries several other GF items. Remember to verify
ingredients as their GF list has items with oats and millet.
5. Schiffey III Catering is well know to celiacs in the Long Island area.
They produce several mixes for mail-order shipment. The mixes are: Bread
Crumb, Oven-baked Pancake, Sponge Cake, Irish Soda Bread, Angel Food Cake,
Stuffing, Pie Crust, Cheese Cake, and Yellow Rice. Their address is: 9
Underhill Ave., Hicksville, NY 11801, (516) 681-0895.
6. The Gluten-Free Pantry has obtained national exposure for celiacs and its
products through reviews on Good Morning America and the new food product
section of several newspapers. They are sponsoring a baking contest using
their products. Entries must be received by June 30, 1995. Some of their
new products are: Cherry Almond Marzipan Tea Cake Mix, Cornbread Mix, Coconut
Macroon Mix, Pastario Pasta, and a Pasta Mix. The grand prize is a Zojirushi
bread machine. The address is: PO Box 881, Glastonbury, CT 06033, (203) 633-
3826.
7. Mr Spice products are now available in some grocery stores. They have
been found on the shelves at Goodings. See the January 1995 issue for details
on these condiments.
8. Dietary Specialties White Bread Mix can be made in the oven or bread
machine. It is also lactose and egg free. They now offer their flours in 10
pound boxes at a reduced price.
9. Ener-G Foods is offering its cookies in bulk quantities at a reduced
price. A nutritional drink, Performance MX, is also available.
10. Mallard Pond Farms discontinued business in January.
11. Passover should be the best holiday season of the year for all celiacs,
Jewish or not, because bread and noodles are out. However, matzo is often
substituted for flour in all kinds of products, so read labels carefully.
Here are some techniques from a Jewish family for remaining GF.
A. Boil the matzo balls separately from the soup, and then you can
have a little chicken soup without worry and everyone else can have
their sinkers. Matzo is unleavened bread, made from wheat. The baked
cracker-bread is ground fine into matzo flour or ground coarsely into
matzo meal and added to commercial holiday products.
B. Recipes for Passover baking can often be adapted because they use
little or no matzo flour. You can easily use gluten-free flour in
egg-white based cakes. Also macaroons made with egg whites and sugar
have no fat, cholesterol or gluten except when you add nuts or
chocolate bits. Macaroon recipes which do call for a little flour or
matzo flour work well with G-F flour. Watch out for commercial
macaroons, some have added matzo flour.
C. Different traditions have different rules. So watch out what you
eat when visiting, offer to bring the gefilte fish, pass on the soup
and have a great holiday.
D. The Sephardic tradition allows rice and rice products during
Passover.
12. Gefilte Fish for Passover may be hard to find. In some locations a
strictly orthodox kosher market in your area may make their own gefilte fish
for Passover without using matzo meal.
13. Glatt Pesach Bakeries, in some orthodox neighborhoods (i.e. New York) are
only open for a few weeks before the holiday. They bake wonderful cakes and
cookies with potato starch which are gluten-free. Layer cakes, chocolate leaf
cookies, brownies, etc. Most of these products are also parve, so if you are
lactose intolerant, it's wonderful. Some supermarkets in large Jewish
neighborhood may import baked goods from one of these bakeries. Potatoes
cakes are available because some Orthodox Jews won't eat matzo or matzo meal
except at the seder.
14. Seasons Products are a wonderful line of condiments available during
Passover. The label for the salad dressing was changed. Previously it listed
cider vinegar; it now reads white vinegar. The vinegar is not made from
wheat.
15. Welbilt Model 2100 Bread Machine is now on the market. This one pound
machine was tested by our own Food Editor, Mary Gunn. Several of her recipes
are included with the machine. One source is Wal-Mart, where it is priced at
$86.91.
16. BASCO products are available again. The original supplier encountered
problems and BASCO is obtaining the products through another company. Their
number is 800 MY-BREAD.
17. Caramel color, according to the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR 21
73:85) is the dark-brown liquid or solid material resulting from the
carefully controlled heat treatment of . . . food-grade carbohydrates. The
carbohydrates sources allowed for caramel color include dextrose, invert
sugar, lactose, malt syrup, molasses, starch hydrolysates, and fractions
thereof, and sugar.
18. Popcorn Rice is a naturally occurring Louisiana product. The taste and
aroma of the rice are a welcome change and can be served with no additional
flavoring as a side dish. If it is not available in your local grocery store,
there are several mail-order sources. One reasonably priced source is:
Midway Plantation Gourmet Foods, HC-62 Box 77, Waterproof, LA 71335, (800)
336-5267.
19. Cracker Substitute for use with a bowl of soup could be a handful of GF
chips (potato or corn). Salted potato chips make an interesting cracker
substitute.
20. Glutinous Rice is gluey or sticky. It does not means that the rice is
toxic to celiacs unless another toxic ingredient is added.
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