Recipes, now time for the savouries.

Gluten Free twiglets....ish

Makes 8oz/250g 150 C in top shelf 2 baking sheets covered with Aluminium foil.

1 Cup GF plain flour (I used the Glutafin White Mix, as that is what was in the Cupboard!!)

¼ tsp Salt

2oz of butter

approx 1 cup of milk (I didn't use anywhere near that much!!)

Marmite

Add flour and Salt to a mixing bowl, rub in butter until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs.

Add ¼ tsp of Marmite to the milk Slowly mix in the milk to the breadcrumb mixture until it forms a soft but not sticky dough.

Turn out onto a very lightly floured top and knead gently for a few minutes. Form into a ball and take bits off to roll into twig like sausages. The easiest way to do this is to take small balls of dough and roll them into sausages between your hands, that way they are uneven and it doesn't matter if they break. The more uneven the better!! Put these onto the baking tray.

In a saucepan put in ½ to 1 tsp of Marmite, with a teeny dribble of water. With a pastry brush cover the bottom of the saucepan with the Marmite, and then dab what is on the brush on to your twigs as liberally as you can.

Place in the oven and cook for around 10mins, until golden and crispy. As soon as you remove from the oven dab on more of the Marmite mixture and leave to cool (if you can!!) I found this was the best way to get the flavour to stick, and they have the same effect as a bag of Twiglets, ie once you start you keep coming back for more...........!!

Remove from baking tray and put in an airtight container, obviously if you want more double the ingredients.

The great thing about these is they don't need to be uniform, it doesn't matter if they break and they're good for you!!!

PIZZA

I make my own bases.  Wasn't sure if this was going to work, but I have found with the Flour mix (Juvela) I discovered that they turn out quite well.  Juvela actually produce their own automatic Bread Machine recipe book which I use with my Panasonic BUT if you have this make of bread machine there are recipes in the back of the recipe book that comes with it that cover Glutafin/Juvela/ and the Doves Farm Flours too.  I didn't even know I had a Gluten Free setting on my machine and I don't use it.   However if you don't want to make your own base here's the recipe for the topping incl the sauce.

1/2 an onion

1 Clove of garlic

Dried Basil

Fresh Basil

Gluten Free Worcester Sauce or Hendersons Relish

1 lge tin of tomatoes

Chop the onion and garlic and fry in a saucepan until soft.  Add 1/2 the tin of tomatoes, Basil (huge pinch of both dried and Fresh)  a splash of Worcester sauce and simmer until the sauce has reduced by 1/2.  This is enough for a Pizza which is big enough for 4 greedy adults!!   It will smell divine, and when the sauce has reduced spread liberally on your pizza base.  Add toppings of your choice, and then grate over a mature Cheddar Cheese.  Put in the oven until the cheese has browned if using pre done bases, if you make your own cook for 20mins Gas 4/160oC until the base is cooked.