Gluten Free Pastries tip of the Week

When making cookies, mix the dough, and then wrap the dough for at least one hour. This process is call hydrating the dough, and will allow the dough to absorb the liquid.  If you do this and then bake your cookies you will be left with a much better product overall. 

Gluten Free Pastries tip of the week

When making bread always use room temperature water.  hint: when running the water, touch it, if it feels cold its probably room temperature.  Remember room temperature is 68 degrees.  That should feel cold to the touch. 

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Hello everyone and welcome to Gluten Free Pastries.  This site was started to give regular everyday people and professionals alike a place to come to get great recipes, great products, and some insider tips on gluten free pastries.
I am a professional pastry chef specializing in gluten free pastries.   My wife suffers from severe food allergies and one of her biggest and worst allergies is wheat and gluten.  This is the main reason why I specialize in gluten free pastries in the 1st place.  That being said wheat and gluten allergies have been on the rise just as celiac disease has been.
I am starting this site to help others.  I have a trained palate I when I first tasted gluten free pastries I thought they were awful so I set out on a mission to make the best tasting gluten free pastries that I could.