My daughter has a sugar allergy or intolerance. The only sugar we can use is brown rice syrup. I found a gluten free oatmeal cookie recipe online. I wanted to try and substitute the sugar for brown rice syrup. Has anyone tried cooking with brown rice syrup?
Any sugar free ideas welcome.
We can't use Honey yet. I tried the oatmeal cookies and she ate them but they were a little dry and crumbly. I want to try brown rice cereal treats next.
I googled "cooking with brown rice syrup" and many links popped up. Give it a try. Good Luck!
Are you able to cook with honey? We're following the Specific Carbohydrate Diet (www.breakingtheviciouscycle.info) due to my daughter's health issues. The only sweetener I can use is honey. She has an anaphylactic allergy to peanuts and tree nuts too, so I have had to learn to adapt to coconut flour as our option for cooking baked goods that require flour. If you can use honey, I can give you some recipes.
My daughter can't have sugar either - nothing that comes from sugarcane, so no white sugar, brown sugar, or even molasses. When I use honey instead of sugar in a recipe, I decrease the other liquids slightly or increase the flour by just a little bit. Other time I will use granulated fructose which she seems to tolerate well, and in that case I just substitute the exact amount for the sugar.
Are you able to use honey? We grew up using only non sugar recipes,so I actually have a recipe box full of them! Let me know if you want some ideas and I can email anything to you! I thing brown rice syrup is a bit thinner then honey and I think is slightly sweeter. And when using either honey or brown rice syrup- remember that they are sweeter then sugar so you can't use the amounts called for!
