<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> Fellow listmembers, In my quest to find good gluten-free and corn-free substitutes for wheat flour-based ingredients in recipes, I recently found an unusual dried rice product called Dragon Toast. It seems to work well as a substitute for matzoh meal. I've been using a wonderful Jewish cookbook and have been adapting its recipes. I don't know if my recipe permutations are kosher (which wasn't my aim, personally), but they have been good. The cookbook I have been using is _The New York Times Passover Cookbook_, edited by Linda Amster. It includes recipes from a variety of sources, from treasured family recipes to recipes developed by people I expected, like Mimi Sheraton and Claudia Roden, to those I didn't expect, like Wolfgang Puck and Paul Prudhomme. I've tried two recipes so far, and I was very pleased with the results. Although I had originally bought the cookbook to explore its grain-free cake recipes, I've now been able to try the recipes calling for matzoh meal too. For those of you who are cookbook fans, you might enjoy this one if you haven't seen it already. To give you more information on the "Dragon Toast", its sole ingredient is whole grain sweet brown rice. It seems to have been cooked and dried and then milled in some fashion. It's fairly expensive, in my opinion, about $5 for a one pound bag, but it's the first product I've found that gives a pleasing result when substituted for matzoh meal (I think I used a touch of some starch in one of the matzoh ball recipes in addition to the Dragon Toast, but it was almost perfect before that too). The company that makes Dragon Toast, Betty Lou's, has a webpage: www.bettylousinc.com The Dragon Toast isn't listed there, but the gentleman I reached when I called said that they definitely still carry it, and it will be added to the web page the next time they update it. The product is supposed to be really good for pizza crusts too, although I haven't tried that yet. So, I thought I would share a happy product find. Out of curiousity, though, has anyone else found any other good matzoh meal substitutes? I'd love to find something cheaper, ideally. I'll be happy to summarize if anyone else has ideas to share. Thank you. Best wishes, Kirsten Klinghammer **** Kirsten Klinghammer [log in to unmask]