{"id":263,"date":"2008-03-20T23:42:19","date_gmt":"2008-03-20T23:42:19","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-10-21T18:23:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T22:23:00","slug":"hemp-flour-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/gluten-free-diet\/hemp-flour-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Hemp Flour Disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve tried yet another experiment in my series of gluten-free<\/a> pie shells.<\/p>\n

This time I made a classic mistake with this wheat-free recipe.<\/p>\n

Someone once told me that the air force has an expression: “Don’t test a new engine on a new airframe”.<\/p>\n

Well, I did just that, pretty much.<\/p>\n

Firstly, I just bought a ceramic pie plate – something I’ve never baked with before.<\/p>\n

Also, I wanted a change from experimenting with quinoa flour and decided to try Hemp_Flour instead.<\/p>\n

hemp flour is great stuff. Besides being a nutritious alternative to wheat<\/a> and being gluten-free<\/a>, it also mixes very nicely with butter. I was surprised at how evenly the butter mixed in with the flour. It produced a beautiful rich chocolate-brown gluten-free dough.<\/p>\n

The dark brown colour was a double-edged sword though. I couldn’t really tell if it was well enough baked or not. And using a new type of pie plate that I was unfamiliar with made it that much worse.<\/p>\n

Result: I burned the pie, but I didn’t even know this until hours later when I actually went to try some of this pie.<\/p>\n

It looked fantastic, but tasted, well, burnt.<\/p>\n

Oh well.<\/p>\n

No recipe to report out of this. Obviously I need to make some adjustments before I can publish anything.<\/p>\n


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