Re: making banana flour

[Guest guest]

Just a thought I'd like to pass along. I've been thinking a lot about flour

lately. This is more philosophy than concrete answer, so bear with me. The

reason for making a flour is to have something that stores for a long time

without spoiling, so it has to be completely dried.

If you're going to use the flour in a moist recipe (like a muffin) it really

isn't necessary to dehydrate something out to totally dry consistency unless you

want to make huge quantities for future use.

In the case of bananas, it makes more sense to just use it fresh, and find a

recipe that uses fresh bananas. I'm sorry I'm not familiar with doing much

baking without eggs, so I don't have much to offer in that department, other

than to suggest you experiment with baking soda/lemon juice combinations to make

the batter rise.

Just thought I'd give you something to think about in terms of the necessity of

drying out your bananas to make flour :-). Good luck.

Take care. Theresa (in Vancouver, Canada)

making banana flour

My daughter's 2nd b-day is a month from today and it is time for me to

start experimenting. I need to make a cake, cup cake, or some kind of desert

for her party.

To make the banana flour...I bought a dehydrator. I figure I should

dehydrate slices and then blend them. How long should I dehydrate and at what

temp?

Thanks,

Elijah 3, ASD, very leaky-gut

a almost 2

SCD 3 months

[Guest guest]

Thank you so much Sheila. I finally have some direction! I'm going to try the

recipe with fresh ripe bananas for an egg subsitute, thank you Theresa. It

wouldn't make much sense to make the flour and then re-hydrate it. I'm still

interested though in making banana chips or flour to see about making pancake.

Pureed bananas are too soupy. Every morning he has turkey or pork sausage and

pureed bananas and pears or peaches or blueberries (recently added). I'd like

to do something different. Snacks are very difficult. He will only eat pureed

foods (although he won't feed himself much more than a few bites) or chewy or

crunchy. He will not eat any fresh fruit due to the texture. If we try the

result is a very stressful gagging session. He just starting accepting carrots

in any form so I will soon try the carrot curls/chips. But if he could do

banana chips that would be great. What temp and for how long should I dehydrate

for chips or flour. If anyone has a snack suggestion

that he would feed himself, chewy or crunchy, I would appreciate it.

Thanks,

Sheila Trenholm sheilat@...> wrote:

Hi ,

> My daughter's 2nd b-day is a month from today and it is time

for me to start experimenting. I need to make a cake, cup cake, or

some kind of desert for her party. My husband and both the children

are *true* allergic to tree nuts, almond especially. My husband's

throat closes so with the kids testing positive they have never

gotten close enough to have a reaction. Dairy and eggs are also out

since both kids have a *true* allergy. I was hoping Elijah could

have goat's or sheep's yogurt, but when I put sheep's yogurt on his

arm it bubbled up with bumps that lasted over 4 hours :-( a

has had no reaction yet; I've only put the goat and sheep's yogurt on

her tongue so far. So I would like to try making a desert with

banana flour. I also bought coconut flour. I know my son is not

ready for coconut but the rest of us may be. My daughter's d went

away day one with SCD. Does anyone know a cake or desert recipe with

just coconut flour and doesn't heavily rely on eggs?

I posted this adapted recipe recently - which I haven't tried. The

original called for 3 eggs so I don't know if applesauce or legal egg

substitues will work instead of the eggs

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/pecanbread/message/40641

If you can get it to hold together with the egg substitues you may be

able to bake/fry up (in oil or coconut butter/oil) like a number of

pancakes that you use 3 or 4 layers to make a cake with instead of

the usual 2.

There are some recipes at http://www.pecanbread.com/recipes.html that

are nut and egg free:

" lime pudding "

" raspeberry popsicles "

" orange pudding " and " green pudding " call for a small amount of nut

butter but you may be able to leave these out and add a little (or a

little extra) honey instead - especially if you serve cold the honey

will firm it up.

Sheila

For information on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet, please read the book

_Breaking the Vicious Cycle_ by Elaine Gottschall and read the following

websites:

http://www.breakingtheviciouscycle.info

and

http://www.pecanbread.com

[Guest guest]

Thank you so much Sheila. I finally have some direction! I'm going to try the

recipe with fresh ripe bananas for an egg subsitute, thank you Theresa. It

wouldn't make much sense to make the flour and then re-hydrate it. I'm still

interested though in making banana chips or flour to see about making pancake.

Pureed bananas are too soupy. Every morning he has turkey or pork sausage and

pureed bananas and pears or peaches or blueberries (recently added). I'd like

to do something different. Snacks are very difficult. He will only eat pureed

foods (although he won't feed himself much more than a few bites) or chewy or

crunchy. He will not eat any fresh fruit due to the texture. If we try the

result is a very stressful gagging session. He just starting accepting carrots

in any form so I will soon try the carrot curls/chips. But if he could do

banana chips that would be great. What temp and for how long should I dehydrate

for chips or flour. If anyone has a snack suggestion

that he would feed himself, chewy or crunchy, I would appreciate it.

Thanks,

Sheila Trenholm sheilat@...> wrote:

Hi ,

> My daughter's 2nd b-day is a month from today and it is time

for me to start experimenting. I need to make a cake, cup cake, or

some kind of desert for her party. My husband and both the children

are *true* allergic to tree nuts, almond especially. My husband's

throat closes so with the kids testing positive they have never

gotten close enough to have a reaction. Dairy and eggs are also out

since both kids have a *true* allergy. I was hoping Elijah could

have goat's or sheep's yogurt, but when I put sheep's yogurt on his

arm it bubbled up with bumps that lasted over 4 hours :-( a

has had no reaction yet; I've only put the goat and sheep's yogurt on

her tongue so far. So I would like to try making a desert with

banana flour. I also bought coconut flour. I know my son is not

ready for coconut but the rest of us may be. My daughter's d went

away day one with SCD. Does anyone know a cake or desert recipe with

just coconut flour and doesn't heavily rely on eggs?

I posted this adapted recipe recently - which I haven't tried. The

original called for 3 eggs so I don't know if applesauce or legal egg

substitues will work instead of the eggs

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/pecanbread/message/40641

If you can get it to hold together with the egg substitues you may be

able to bake/fry up (in oil or coconut butter/oil) like a number of

pancakes that you use 3 or 4 layers to make a cake with instead of

the usual 2.

There are some recipes at http://www.pecanbread.com/recipes.html that

are nut and egg free:

" lime pudding "

" raspeberry popsicles "

" orange pudding " and " green pudding " call for a small amount of nut

butter but you may be able to leave these out and add a little (or a

little extra) honey instead - especially if you serve cold the honey

will firm it up.

Sheila

For information on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet, please read the book

_Breaking the Vicious Cycle_ by Elaine Gottschall and read the following

websites:

http://www.breakingtheviciouscycle.info

and

http://www.pecanbread.com

[Guest guest]

Thank you so much Sheila. I finally have some direction! I'm going to try the

recipe with fresh ripe bananas for an egg subsitute, thank you Theresa. It

wouldn't make much sense to make the flour and then re-hydrate it. I'm still

interested though in making banana chips or flour to see about making pancake.

Pureed bananas are too soupy. Every morning he has turkey or pork sausage and

pureed bananas and pears or peaches or blueberries (recently added). I'd like

to do something different. Snacks are very difficult. He will only eat pureed

foods (although he won't feed himself much more than a few bites) or chewy or

crunchy. He will not eat any fresh fruit due to the texture. If we try the

result is a very stressful gagging session. He just starting accepting carrots

in any form so I will soon try the carrot curls/chips. But if he could do

banana chips that would be great. What temp and for how long should I dehydrate

for chips or flour. If anyone has a snack suggestion

that he would feed himself, chewy or crunchy, I would appreciate it.

Thanks,

Sheila Trenholm sheilat@...> wrote:

Hi ,

> My daughter's 2nd b-day is a month from today and it is time

for me to start experimenting. I need to make a cake, cup cake, or

some kind of desert for her party. My husband and both the children

are *true* allergic to tree nuts, almond especially. My husband's

throat closes so with the kids testing positive they have never

gotten close enough to have a reaction. Dairy and eggs are also out

since both kids have a *true* allergy. I was hoping Elijah could

have goat's or sheep's yogurt, but when I put sheep's yogurt on his

arm it bubbled up with bumps that lasted over 4 hours :-( a

has had no reaction yet; I've only put the goat and sheep's yogurt on

her tongue so far. So I would like to try making a desert with

banana flour. I also bought coconut flour. I know my son is not

ready for coconut but the rest of us may be. My daughter's d went

away day one with SCD. Does anyone know a cake or desert recipe with

just coconut flour and doesn't heavily rely on eggs?

I posted this adapted recipe recently - which I haven't tried. The

original called for 3 eggs so I don't know if applesauce or legal egg

substitues will work instead of the eggs

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/pecanbread/message/40641

If you can get it to hold together with the egg substitues you may be

able to bake/fry up (in oil or coconut butter/oil) like a number of

pancakes that you use 3 or 4 layers to make a cake with instead of

the usual 2.

There are some recipes at http://www.pecanbread.com/recipes.html that

are nut and egg free:

" lime pudding "

" raspeberry popsicles "

" orange pudding " and " green pudding " call for a small amount of nut

butter but you may be able to leave these out and add a little (or a

little extra) honey instead - especially if you serve cold the honey

will firm it up.

Sheila

For information on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet, please read the book

_Breaking the Vicious Cycle_ by Elaine Gottschall and read the following

websites:

http://www.breakingtheviciouscycle.info

and

http://www.pecanbread.com