Allergy-Free Cookbook
Product Description
Discovering one of her sons had a life-threatening allergy to nuts and eggs catapulted Alice Sherwood into the bewildering world of “food allergies.” How can you make a birthday cake without flour? What happens to family meals when packaged foods, which may contain traces of nuts, along with pasta, bread, and peanut butter become forbidden? Suddenly it became crucial to find alternatives, but most “cooking without” recipes lacked taste or contained unfamiliar ingredients that were hard to find. So Alice, armed with a lifelong love of food, got to work in the kitchen and devised her own recipes.
The Allergy-Free Cookbook is unique. There are no dismal, “special diet” versions of recipes, which don’t work. Instead there are dishes from around the world that center on ingredients other than eggs, dairy, gluten, and nuts. Throughout, Alice gives several variations for each recipe. So a nut-free cake that uses butter, for example, may be adapted for the… More >>
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I gave this book to a friend for Christmas. He has severe allergies to many things, and he’s looking forward to using this book and was impressed with all the recipes for him to try!
With a gluten-free,dairy-free person in the house, and a gluten-free one that CAN eat dairy, these recipes are so great! You can customize to everyone’s needs. Thanks!
I was very excited about the format of this cookbook as I have multiple food sensitivities. The disappointing part is the fact that while one sensitivity is omitted for a recipe if you have multiple foods to eliminate it is sometimes impossible to make the substitutions the book calls for. The recipes are also somewhat complicated and do not use ingredients the average cook would have on hand. This cookbook would be good for someone who is a good cook with maybe only one food allergy.
I bought this book because the title says: Allergy-Free Cookbook, no eggs, no dairy, no nuts, no gluten. I was disappointed to find that this is not entirely true. Nearly all of the recipes contain at least one of those ingredients if not all of them! Variations are given on the right side of the page for the “free” versions. Things like replace heavy cream with soy cream (we don’t do processed soy foods). The baked goods may be made gluten-free, but still contain dairy and eggs.
I have 2 ADHD sons and they are on the GF / CF diet. My husband is also allergic to eggs so I cook mostly without eggs. This cookbook just didn’t suite my needs. It is a nice looking book with good photos. And I have found a few recipes that we all like. The Chicken Fajitas are good and we use brown rice tortillas with them, we also like the Noodles in Hot Ginger Broth.
I would check this one out from the library before purchasing it. There are other great books out there that are healthy and gluten / dairy free.
I echo the review about many of the recipes not really being GF, DF etc. as the book says and the optional way to make each recipe isn’t simple for most of the recipes. The way it’s set up is confusing and many of the ingredients are expensive and unusual. This is not a book for someone who wants to find allergy-free, easier food to make, especially if they’re looking to save time. It’s more like a gourmet allergy-free cookbook for people that want to spend their whole day in the kitchen and have plenty of money to spend and time to read directions. And although she calls them “family” recipes, a lot of the recipes are not very kid-friendly.