christmas baking with food sensivities?

[yunape]

i'd like to bake some cookies (or other baked goods) for a friend of mine. he's allergic to several things, and i have a hard time finding recipes that cater to all that. plus, i don't have any experience in gf cooking/baking, and not a lot of time to experiment (nor the money to spend on costly gf flours if they are not working out

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[sua_sponte]

Hmmm. With the list you provided, I would say you could find a good recipe for a Chocolate Flourless Cake (with, obviously, no flour at all).

Uhhh... I'm not "getting" the whole "no whites, but yes to yolks" thing, and also the "no milk, but other sources of dairy are OK." I would suggest trying to search www.epicurious.com and also glutenfreegirl.blogspot.com for recipes.

[amyrebeccah]

Yeah, I've heard it the other way around (yolks bad, whites ok) for the eggs, but I'm really curious! What about the whites is an allergen, if anyone knows?

[djonma]

Egg whites contain most of the egg protein, which tends to be what egg allergy sufferers are allergic to, and I believe there are different proteins in the white and the yolk.
It's the egg white that is used as the base carrier for injections that use egg protein, as far as I'm aware, and I can't have any injections that contain that.

[djonma]

In fact, just checked wikipedia and it does say this:
"Generally, physicians will recommend feeding only the yolk to infants because of the higher risk of allergic reaction to the egg white."

[amyrebeccah]

No kidding. . .my little brother was allergic to yolks (he grew out of it) so that's all I'd heard of. He couldn't have the MMR because of it until we could get one prepared differently.

[tytal]

It's normally the albumin, but there are so many proteins and associated enzymes in an egg that only an allergist can be sure.

[yunape]

i don't get it either ;) but that's the information i got. whatever he's sensitive to in milk isn't there in cream it seems.

i'm thinking fourless chocolate mini cakes now, that sounds great. i know he loves chocolate!

[antikythera]

How can you separate that out? How can you get an egg yolk out of an egg with absolutely no albumen clinging to it? I'd just be going with 'no eggs' here, to be safe.

[yunape]

you can buy separate yolks, or so i've been told.