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Summary: Great Book!
Review: As a mother of a large family, with a child who needs wheatfree, gluten free items, this book has been a great help. In it are simple easy to make recipies, that please even hard core wheat lovers! (Like my husband!) The recipies are easy for me to double, easy to fix on a moments notice, and our frequent guests have not even missed the wheat! From there, I have learned to adapt the basic principles of gluten free cooking to old time family favorites. This book is top of my list for ALL cookbooks, and has a treasured place on my book shelf.
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Summary: This is the best of the Gluten-Free cookbooks!
Review: Bette Hagman has outdone herself with her third gluten-free cookbook! She has included many recipes that incorporate the newer use of bean flours as well as bread machines. She continues to come up with innovative new recipes for both breads and main dishes. It is a must for any gluten-free cook. I particularly enjoyed how easy the recipes are to do, and they are quick. I also appreciate the health-conscious attitude the book takes. As always, she provides quite a bit of excellent reference information and background to help people newly struggling with the gluten-free diet, as well as those who have been on it a long time. Definitely my favorite of the three!
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Summary: Bette has done it again!
Review: Bette has done her usual great job at describing Celiac Sprue, Gluten free living, using gluten free ingredients and baking and cooking with this challenging diet.In this book Bette shows how to make up "mixes" for we who are gluten challenged. For example she explains cake and bread flour mixes, my two favorites, that can be made up in large quantities, mixed very well and stored for later use. This makes it as convenient to bake a gluten free cake, as it is to make one from one of those boxes from the grocery-baking aisle. There are many other mixes. (I counted 36.) One of my favorite everyday mixes is Onion Soup. I use it when cooking meats and stews. This one alone has saved my day when the children's activities take up all my time and energy and I just could not have sliced and diced and browned and simmered, etc, to get the onion base for the gravy just right. Bette supplies recipes for lots of the hard to find things like Sweet and Sour sauce, Sweet Pickle relish, low-fat dressing and lots more. She also explains some very helpful substitutions like things to use in baking if you have lactose intolerance and Sprue (and the taste doesn't overwhelm in the final product). Just seeing how Bette creates her mixes and uses them in her recipes is a great education. Once you start using this book you probably will get the courage to try out your own mixes or vary Bette's until it meets with your palates delight. Her recipes are easy to use. She explains the directions well. The end product is delightful. I love this book and refer to it often even when I am not using it to bake. I take it to the grocery store to use as a reference.
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Summary: Bette has done it again!
Review: Bette has done her usual great job at describing Celiac Sprue, Gluten free living, using gluten free ingredients and baking and cooking with this challenging diet. In this book Bette shows how to make up "mixes" for we who are gluten challenged. For example she explains cake and bread flour mixes, my two favorites, that can be made up in large quantities, mixed very well and stored for later use. This makes it as convenient to bake a gluten free cake, as it is to make one from one of those boxes from the grocery-baking aisle. There are many other mixes. (I counted 36.) One of my favorite everyday mixes is Onion Soup. I use it when cooking meats and stews. This one alone has saved my day when the children's activities take up all my time and energy and I just could not have sliced and diced and browned and simmered, etc, to get the onion base for the gravy just right. Bette supplies recipes for lots of the hard to find things like Sweet and Sour sauce, Sweet Pickle relish, low-fat dressing and lots more. She also explains some very helpful substitutions like things to use in baking if you have lactose intolerance and Sprue (and the taste doesn't overwhelm in the final product). Just seeing how Bette creates her mixes and uses them in her recipes is a great education. Once you start using this book you probably will get the courage to try out your own mixes or vary Bette's until it meets with your palates delight. Her recipes are easy to use. She explains the directions well. The end product is delightful. I love this book and refer to it often even when I am not using it to bake. I take it to the grocery store to use as a reference.
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Summary: Very clear recipes and good!
Review: I have had celiac for 20 years and this is the first cookbook that has good recipes. Crumpets are the basis of my breads; I can add any flavor to the recipe and enjoy especially onion crumpets.
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Summary: The recipes are gluten free, but healthy it's not!
Review: I read all the reviews before I bought this book and assumed it was a good book for people allergic to gluten looking for 'healthy' recipes. If you consider brown sugar, confectioner's sugar, white sugar, corn syrup, margarine, Butter Flavored Crisco, canned vegetables, and soda 'healthy' ingredients then by all means this book is for you. But, if you're like me and have health problems then I would suggest not buying this book. You'd be better off buying prepared gluten free flour and adapting recipes you already have. Many of the meat and vegetable recipes are just wasting space in the book. How hard is it to prepare poached salmon, three bean salad, or cole slaw without gluten? I am returning the book to Amazon because I cannot use it.
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Summary: This book grounded me after I was diagnosed!
Review: I've only known I am a celiac for a couple of months. By great luck, I saw a review of this book two days after my diagnosis, while I was visiting in the Seattle area. Ms. Hagman brought me into the reality of living as a celiac and did so with solid and thorough information. This book is so much more than I expected. I really have found more help in it than in the diet the doctor gave me-the book being far more thorough. It's also encouraging because the author is a celiac and she offers years of experience and deep knowledge of the subject. I'm buying another copy now for my niece, who tried the diet after hearing about my diagnosis and has had immediate relief. With Bette Hagman's books, I hope many more people will find out about celiac disease sooner and be spared years of deterioration! For me it offers hope of restored health and a realistic view of how that may come about. It's a very practical and readable resource!
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Summary: Great book to have! Celiacs really can have baked goods...
Review: If you are looking for lots of "low sugar" recipes, this is not the book for you. But if you are a celiac or cook for a celiac (like I do) and you want to eat "normal" things, you've got to have this book! I rely heavily on this book so that I can make things for my husband like the rest of the world eats: pizza, cake, cookies, hamburger buns, and french bread just to name a few. (I think the french bread recipe is the best gluten-free thing I have ever had!) I really don't use the main course recipes that much since I don't find it hard to cook gluten-free dinners, but I LOVE being able to pull this book off the shelf and prepare something special for my husband, especially when he is feeling "blue" about eating gluten free. Bette's recipes consistently turn out well and they are not difficult to prepare. I wouldn't consider myself the world's best cook, but I am very proud of what I am able to turn out with this book. If you need gluten-free recipes, you really should add this book to your shelf.
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Summary: Great book to have! Celiacs really can have baked goods...
Review: If you are looking for lots of "low sugar" recipes, this is not the book for you. But if you are a celiac or cook for a celiac (like I do) and you want to eat "normal" things, you've got to have this book! I rely heavily on this book so that I can make things for my husband like the rest of the world eats: pizza, cake, cookies, hamburger buns, and french bread just to name a few. (I think the french bread recipe is the best gluten-free thing I have ever had!) I really don't use the main course recipes that much since I don't find it hard to cook gluten-free dinners, but I LOVE being able to pull this book off the shelf and prepare something special for my husband, especially when he is feeling "blue" about eating gluten free. Bette's recipes consistently turn out well and they are not difficult to prepare. I wouldn't consider myself the world's best cook, but I am very proud of what I am able to turn out with this book. If you need gluten-free recipes, you really should add this book to your shelf.
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Summary: The recipes are gluten free, but healthy it's not!
Review: My granddaughter was recently diagnosed with Celiac. With the holidays coming; a daughter who does not like to cook; and a granddaughter who felt left out, I ordered the book. It saved my life (and reputation as "grandma that always has goodies for the grandchildren") The lighthearted manner in which Bette Hagman wrote this book is entertaining and informative at the same time. Her common sense approach to the problem was easy to follow. Bottom line: after looking at my book my daughter bought one and is cooking from scratch, for the first time using the easy to follow recipes.
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