Thanks for the recipe. You currently have the distinction of publishing the only non-gluten-free recipe on the entire site!

I went on an elimination diet, and could not understand the foods that gave me mass headaches and made me cough as I reintroduced them.

Once I figured out what all these foods had in common, I was relieved and stressed to try and figure out what I could eat. I also use sulfite free shampoos, conditioners, hair dye (Eco Colors), and soaps, and hair products. What a relief.

Asthma and exzema are gone, and so it itching. Hair is mostly back, but more fragile than 10 years ago. No more migraines. I also take liquid B12 and it seems to have helped allow me to eat small amounts of sulfites in some foods with no reactions.

Mix all your dry ingredients well:
1 cup of all purpose flour (NOT self-rising – that has yeast)
2 TBSP of sugar (you can use sugar in the raw if no molasses)
1/3 tsp salt
1/3 tsp baking soda

Grate in and mix with hands until mixture is coarse:
1/3 of a stick of cold butter

Mix together first and then add to biscuit mixture until sticky
1 cup of milk and 1 tbsp of fresh squeezed lemon juice

Add sulfite free dried fruits and slivered almonds or chopped nuts as desired.

Drop onto a baking tray in large scooping TABLESPOONS or into a muffin tin.

Bake on next to lowest rack in oven for 12 to 13 minutes until you see a light golden color

Great for biscuits with stews or heavy soups, or as scones.

found this website http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4017445/

It talks about Saccharomyces Cerevisiae, which is the yeast they use in baking, producing sulfites through fermentation.

I’ve read that raw sugar is gased with SO2 (Sulfite) before being processed further. (interesting because sulfites are used for bleaching and anti clumping). Does that mean the SO2 bleaches it to make it white? Bleaching and Anti clumping like in tapioca starch which is used in icing sugar. Brown sugar has molasses (sulfites) added. I use honey to sweeten things Stevia can have tapioca starch added to stop clumping.

At one stage I thought my son may have a problem with salicylates but since then I’ve discovered its more sulfites produced from foods containing sulfur containing amino acids (eg: methionine) and the biotin in foods (you need SAMe to
process biotin). You need folate to make SAMe. When your body has too much methionine it converts it to homocystiene. Your body then converts homocystiene back to methionine using folate and B12 to produce SAMe.

Biotin is in eggs, watermelon, peanuts, banana

Alot of berries are sulfited eg: grapes, even the pads in the berry packages contain sulfites Eg: raspberries

Maybe try grinding your own flour and using a scone dough to make things like I do. 1 cup flour + half a teaspoon of bi-carb + 1 and a half tablespoons of fresh lemon/lime juice = 1 cup of Self raising flour. I don’t use Self raising flour because it contains baking powder which could have sulfites in it due to cream of tar tar in it.

Hope this helps

Theresa

True, cream of tarter is a left-over from wine making, so I suppose it might have sulfites in it. Because it is a crystal, and because there is plenty of sulfites left in the wine, and since they are water-soluble, probably not that much would end up in the cream of tarter. This is my theory, and it would be a good idea to call a few manufacturers and find out how much sulfites are in their product. In the absence of that information, best to avoid cream of tarter if you are sensitive to it.

Hi again,

Forgot to metion that did you know that their is sulfites in the air from fuel emissions etc.
See:
http://www.alamoasthma.com/sulfite.shtml

Don’t know if this is true from this source but they are Dr’s

Personally whenever there is cloud cover or wind it sets my son off. (maybe the by product of fossil fuel combustion (sulfure dioxide is closer to ground under the cloud cover) I keep him inside with windows shut up when there is smoke or if his dad is lawn mowing.
We went on a driving trip. He was fine with the aircon on recirculate in the car but every so often we would let in some outside air and he would be sniffly again or sneezing.

Also I’m in the process of trying to determine if childrens panadol has sulfites as a preservative in it. I saw it in adult paracetamol and was concerned about what to do when he has a temp. I called the company but they said they use acesulfame potassium as a sweetner in the children’s panadol I use. I don’t know whether that has anything to do with sulfites or not. If anyone can help on this matter that would be great.

cal

Hi,

Was looking up about baking soda, cream of tartar and baking powder tonight. Baking powder = baking soda + cream of tartar

Cream of tartar is made from the leftovers of wine making (sulfite alert) see:
http://www.thekitchn.com/food-science-what-is-cream-of-72125

I was looking up how to make my own glucose syrup because the sulfites in this has tricked us up recently. (Trying to make my son his own sweets for christmas time next year) Looks like I might be able to use lemon juice and baking soda to make things rise. Or lemon juice instead of cream of tartar in sweets. Try looking up whats in baking soda. I found this interesting.

Heard on one persons website that organic doesn’t necessarily mean sulfite free. I need to look into to this further.

Best wishes it’s not a nice allergy to have. My son gets eczema, hayfever and asthma with a touch of scary sleep apnea at night.

Cal