[pjsmom30]

My son is allergic to wheat and sugar. My husband has a family tradition of eating Monkey Bread on Christmas morning. I am used to making this with refrigerator biscuits and sugar. Ideas for an easy dough with spelt flour that would be like the store bought biscuits. And I usually use agave syrup for him, but in this recipe I think something more like sugar would be better. How about Maple sugar?

Thanks in advance! I need to try this out ASAP so I know if it works...

Gina

 

[kjbrown92]

maple sugar sounds good in this case.
Is it only wheat, or all gluten? If it's only wheat then maybe a rye or barley would work best as a direct sub in a biscuit recipe. If it's all gluten, then it gets a little trickier. Can you use guar gum or xanthan gum? If so, you should probably be able to find a gluten-free biscuit recipe that will work.

Our family always had an apricot coffee cake for Christmas breakfast (passed down from DH's family) but this year with 3 out of the 5 of us being dairy, gluten, soy, and others free, who knows what breakfast will be!

 

[pjsmom30]

He is only allergic to wheat. I always replace with sprouted spelt. You think rye or barley is better for biscuits? OK

Thanks!

 

[kjbrown92]

Not sure. We're gluten free here, so we don't do any of the alternate flours (well, I use rye in DH's english muffins sometimes). You could always try to make a biscuit with the spelt and see how it goes. Then add the other things.

 

[bremen]

spelt would work just fine. it is the most wheat-like flour
just use a regular biscuit recipe like this
http://www.seedsofknowledge.com/biscuits.html
and it should turn out fine. i have never had any trouble substituting spelt for wheat.
maple sugar sounds like a good idea to try for the sugar.

let us know how it turns out!

 

[Wugmama]

You do know that spelt is wheat, don't you? If he can't have wheat he shouldn't have spelt either. I myself already made that mistake...

~Tracy