Holiday Beverages

Sparkling Punch

1 – 12 ounce can of concentrated frozen mixed fruit juice

1 – 32 ounce bottle of sparkling water

Simply mix the two ingredients in your punch bowl. My bowl holds double this recipe.

Carob Peppermint Tea

1 bag of your favorite peppermint tea

Steep in 1 ½ cups boiling water in your tea cup

Remove tea bag

Holiday Pies

Rice Flour Pie Crust

Mix these ingredients together in a 9-inch pie plate:

1/3 cup whole almonds, grind to a fine powder and transfer to 9 inch pie plate

¾ cup brown rice flour

¼ teaspoon cinnamon

Pinch of ground cloves

Mix these together in a small saucepan:

2        Tablespoons water

2 Tablespoons oil (I use grapeseed oil)

2 Tablespoons honey

Heat gently (if necessary) until honey liquefies. Pour into pie plate. Stir with fork until well blended. Let stand a few minutes for rice flour to absorb liquid. Shape crust by patting mixture firmly into place with fingers. Pat top edge of crust into a straight edge.

For unfilled crust bake at 350 degrees F for 18 minutes or until lightly browned with a few small cracks. Cool before filling.

For filled crust, bake empty shell at 350 degrees F for 5 minutes. Then add desired filling and finish baking as your recipe directs.

Makes one 9-inch pie shell. Double recipe for a 10-inch pie shell with a little left over.

From The Allergy Self-Help Cookbook

Apple Pie

At our house we always have this apple pie on Thanksgiving and Christmas for those of us who cannot tolerate table sugar (sucrose)

Fruit juice sweetened (no table sugar)

3 cups sliced apples

¼ cup frozen unsweetened apple juice concentrate, thawed

¼ teaspoon lemon juice

1 tablespoon cornstarch (or 2 tablespoons arrowroot flour)

¾ teaspoon cinnamon

1/16 teaspoon white Stevia extract

Mix the dry ingredients together. Use a small amount of the apple juice concentrate and blend into the dry ingredients. Bring the apples, lemon juice and the rest of the apple juice concentrate to a simmer in a large pan. Then add the dry ingredient mixture. Stir until thickened. Place the mixture into a precooked 9-inch pie shell and cool before serving.

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