Post by kickingfrog on Oct 20, 2011 17:53:39 GMT
Easy pastry (GF & WF) for school children
Posted by Jen C on 19/10/2011
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My daughter's primary school is keen to make sure she can fully participate in cookery activities. Next term, they want the children to make some mince pies for a parents' party they hold, and all 60 children are going to make gluten-free, wheat-free mince pies, so that my daughter isn't made to feel different!!!
However, they've asked us to give them an easy GF/WF flour recommendation and a recipe recommendation, suitable for 4 & 5 year olds to make and that will be edible for the parents (who obviously won't normally eat GF/WF mince pies!)
Their second choice would be to offer fairy cakes, and again would like a GF/WF easy recipe & flour recommendation, if pastry would be too difficult for the children to make successfully.
Could anyone give us some tried and tested suggestions for either mince pie pastry or fairy cakes, using GF/WF flour please? I've never made either, so have no info to offer them, and I really want it to be successful so that the school continues to include my daughter like this.
Thank you very much! x Jen
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Posted by Wendy on 19/10/2011
Hi
I make the fairy cakes using the recipe of the back of Doves SR Flour. Easy and they are lovely !! I don't think any pastry is easy for kids to make so I would suggest they do the fairy cakes.
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Posted by Karen(Essex) on 20/10/2011
GF shortcrust pastry.
115g plain GF flour
30g white vegetable fat (from fridge)
30g hard margarine
1 egg
Sift flour and rub in fat. Beat egg with 1 tablespoon water. Sprinkle over crumb mix and mix in. Knead until dough is pliable. The more you knead it the better if will be (just the opposite of ordinary pastry). Do not roll less than 5mm thick. Patch up holes in pastry if necessary.
Prick pastry well to prevent rising.
Bake at 200C for about 20 minutes.
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Posted by Jen C on 19/10/2011
Gf board
My daughter's primary school is keen to make sure she can fully participate in cookery activities. Next term, they want the children to make some mince pies for a parents' party they hold, and all 60 children are going to make gluten-free, wheat-free mince pies, so that my daughter isn't made to feel different!!!
However, they've asked us to give them an easy GF/WF flour recommendation and a recipe recommendation, suitable for 4 & 5 year olds to make and that will be edible for the parents (who obviously won't normally eat GF/WF mince pies!)
Their second choice would be to offer fairy cakes, and again would like a GF/WF easy recipe & flour recommendation, if pastry would be too difficult for the children to make successfully.
Could anyone give us some tried and tested suggestions for either mince pie pastry or fairy cakes, using GF/WF flour please? I've never made either, so have no info to offer them, and I really want it to be successful so that the school continues to include my daughter like this.
Thank you very much! x Jen
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Posted by Wendy on 19/10/2011
Hi
I make the fairy cakes using the recipe of the back of Doves SR Flour. Easy and they are lovely !! I don't think any pastry is easy for kids to make so I would suggest they do the fairy cakes.
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Posted by Karen(Essex) on 20/10/2011
GF shortcrust pastry.
115g plain GF flour
30g white vegetable fat (from fridge)
30g hard margarine
1 egg
Sift flour and rub in fat. Beat egg with 1 tablespoon water. Sprinkle over crumb mix and mix in. Knead until dough is pliable. The more you knead it the better if will be (just the opposite of ordinary pastry). Do not roll less than 5mm thick. Patch up holes in pastry if necessary.
Prick pastry well to prevent rising.
Bake at 200C for about 20 minutes.
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