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Moist ginger cake, with no ginger!

July 21, 2020 by Joan Breakey   Blog

My mother used to make this lovely soft cake so I rewrote the recipe without the ginger and it tastes darkly caramel with the brown sugars and syrup and a dash of treacle. It is fun adapting recipes for the Low Chemical Diet as you can adjust amounts depending on your tolerance of salicylate, and the size of your piece of cake each day. Diet tolerance hint: You can decide if you use any dark brown sugar or treacle at all. I have used a little of both here to give a rich flavour. … [Read more...]

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Have a no-fail Pavlova at Christmas

December 15, 2018 by Joan Breakey   Article

It makes sense to use Christmas to test out your tolerance in some way. Test what you really like as, if you are lucky and tolerate it, you will have a treat you really like even if you are careful about other foods. Or you can test one type of food chemical and see how much you can manage. For salicylates test some of the just beautiful fruit available. Mangoes and nectarines and watermelon are lower risk, then work up to other stone fruit and cherries, then Christmas cake and Christmas mince … [Read more...]

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Christmas Sago Plum Pudding (Low Salicylate)

December 1, 2017 by Joan Breakey   Blog

Christmas is a tricky time to be managing your diet, as many Christmas foods are heavily spiced and flavoured with fruit.  You can still have a wonderful Christmas pudding using the following recipe that all of the family will enjoy. This pudding is light and fluffy, so is suitable for the warm Christmas we have in Australia.  This recipe may be made wheat free by using wheat free breadcrumbs.  It is best served hot with cornflour custard, cream or ice-cream. Sago Plum Pudding (Low … [Read more...]

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Freeze-dried peeled pear: the perfect snack

December 18, 2016 by Joan Breakey   Blog

Have you found Crispy Fruits Pure Pear from Think Products. It is even peeled so as low as you can go in pear salicylate! It is the perfect snack to store in your car so you always have something. And it is also the best pear  for the Sago plum pudding. Enjoy! Joan … [Read more...]

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Yo-yos

October 7, 2014 by Joan Breakey   Blog

Makes 36 single 18 pairs   1 cup S R Flour 1/2 cup cornflour 1/3 cup icing sugar 125 gm butter Turn oven on. Set to 180 degrees C. Cream butter and icing sugar, work in flours to make a stiff dough. Roll into balls (about the size of a walnut), place on oven tray. Using a fork flatten each ball a little. Bake until light fawn colour 15 - 20 minutes. Allow to cool. Join together to make yo-yos with melted butter icing. Icing. Sieve 2/3 cup icing sugar. Melt 1 tablespoon (60 gm) … [Read more...]

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Fresh pear muffins

October 4, 2014 by Joan Breakey   Blog

Makes 18 large muffins Ingredients Wet mix: 125gm butter 1/2 cup sugar 1/2 cup golden syrup 2 eggs 1 cup milk 2 cups fresh pears peeled and diced = 3 whole pears Dry mix: 3 cups Self Raising flour Method Measure milk and eggs and allow to stand. (Curdling is less if all ingredients are at room temperature.) Turn oven on, set at 180 - 200 degrees C. Grease muffin tins or use non stick pans. Cream butter, sugar and golden syrup. Beat in eggs and add milk. Stir in the diced pears. … [Read more...]

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Joan Breakey

Joan Breakey is the author of foodintolerancepro.com.  She is one of the few dietitians in the world who has a lifetime of specialisation in the area of Food Sensitivity. She is a  Dietitian, Home Economist and Teacher. In 1975 she began her first work on Diet and Hyperactivity, investigating the effects of the Feingold diet on children’s behaviour. For more than 45 years Joan has been writing books and articles, publishing and presenting the results of her ongoing research in this area.

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