Gluten Free Baking Mix

[judydawn]

Just wondering if someone can point me in the right direction here for a non-GF substitute for the above product. I am doing the Potato, pea & mint quiche recipe from this months Australian Healthy Food Guide magazine which calls for 1 tblspn GF baking mix to be mixed in with the mashed potato and egg to form the base of the quiche.  Will I use just ordinary plain flour, cornflour or what please?

[faffa_70]

JD if I were making that recipe my interpretation would be GF plain flour. GF flours are generally a mix of different GF flours so I am sure you could get away with just substituting plain flour or corn flour or even a mixture of the both. Can't wait to see this recipe!!

[achookwoman]

I would use plain flour or potato flour.  Judy.

[Merlin]

If it's only one tablespoon you need, definitely use normal plain flour or potato flour. It wouldn't be worth your while to go out and buy a GF plain flour mix for only that small quantity- like many GF products,  GF flour mixes are hideously expensive compared to normal wheat based products! We coeliacs sure pay a premium for gluten free food items! (just had to have a whine today to food manufacturers- some of us actually have to have a gluten free lifestyle to stay healthy and not get complications from eating gluten, not because we' wish to be fashionable!!!!)

[judydawn]

Thanks for the responses girls, probably on the menu for tomorrow now.  We are not GF so, not having heard the term 'baking mix' before I thought I would check before using what I thought it might be. 

[Merlin]

I would have thought that even gluten free bread mix would be OK for this. Some GF mixes  are definitely labelled as baking mix, especially  mixes  from the USA.

[judydawn]

It is a very broad statement isn't it - 'baking mix'.