Lessons Index
Oct 16th, 2007 by Mary Frances
Baking
Gluten Free Sugar Cookies:1 "How to Cream Butter & Sugar"
Gluten Free Sugar Cookies:2 "To Cream or Not: Gluten Free Sugar Cookie Trials"
Gluten Free Sugar Cookies:3 Gluten Free Sugar Cookie Recipe
Gluten Free Sugar Cookies:4 "Rolling in Dough: The Last of the Sugar Cookie Series"
How to Bake a Cake: 1"How to Bake a Gluten Free Angel Food Cake"
Breads
"Rolling out Flour Tortillas (Gluten Free Tortillas, At That)"
Confections
How to Make Candy: 1"Gluten Free Crème Brûlée"
Eggs
"How To: The Egg Series No. 1"
"Egg Series No. 1: How to Crack and Separate an Egg"
"Egg Series No. 1: How to Beat Egg Whites"
"Egg Series No. 1: How to Beat Egg Yolks & Crème Brûlée Recipe"
Grains
"Risotto: A Step by Step Cooking Lesson"
Sauces
"How to Make Gluten Free Cream of Mushroom Soup"
Veggie Preparation
"How to Dice an Onion in 5 Steps"
"Five Reasons to Shred Cabbage with a Knife, and How To Do It."
"How to Prep a Butternut Squash"
Grocery Shopping
"10 Strategies to Lower My Grocery Bill - Part 1"
"10 Strategies to Lower My Grocery Bill - Part 2"
Gluten Free Planning
"Planning for a Busy Gluten Free Life"
"Planning a Gluten Free Weekend Away"
How do you keep the g/f batter from creeping up your beaters when using the mixer? I was making a g/f d/f pound cake and kept having to stop and clean off the beaters frequently during the mixing process. How can I keep this from happening?
Hi Renee,
I usually place the business end of my rubber spoon/spatula against the top of the beaters. When the dough or batter works it’s way up that far, the spatula makes the dough clump together. Eventually the clump will get so large it will succumb to the force of gravity and fall back into the bowl.
You can also run the spatula down the stem of the beaters as they are spinning to push the batter back down.
Hi to Renee and Mary Frances
In order to keep the dough from creeping up your beaters do not use them! Holding a spatula on top of the beaters to try to force the dough down into the bowl puts your mixer under stress and there is the possibility you could burn out the moter.
Instead, use dough hooks - the kind of accessory that most brands of mixers provide and recommend for bread dough.
If your mixer does not have dough hooks, then I recommend you stop the mixer, then scrape down the beaters. By stopping the moter you extend the life of your machine.