Rice Flour Pastry Recipes

Steps:

• Put flour, baking powder and salt into a bowl.
• Add cold butter pieces and use a fork or pastry knife.
• Mix them into the dry ingredients.
• Add cold butter pieces and use a fork or pastry knife.
• Add the egg and water and stir til sticky.
• Use a piece of waxed paper with rice flour on it to roll dough out on.
• Turn the piece of waxed paper upside down into pie pan.
• Dough will not stick together like a gluten dough.
• Bake at 350 for 25-30 minutes.

Steps:

• From the rice flour box: "rice flour pastry is very delicate and may break in handling, however it does repair readily and there is no worry of toughening the pastry from overhandling; Some cracks may appear in baked product".
• Combine rice flour, sugar, salt and baking powder.
• Cut in shortening until mixture is crumbly.
• Combine water and vanilla.
• Stir into flour mixture just until moistened.
• With floured hands, press into 9 inch pie plate.
• OR form dough into ball and roll between two sheets of waxed paper to about 1/8 inch thickness.
• Remove top paper.
• Turn into pie plate.
• Remove remaining paper.
• Carefully fit into pie plate.
• Flute edges.
• For filled pies, bake crust at 375°F for 5 minutes.
• Then fill and bake pie according to recipe.
• For baked pie shell, line with aluminum foil and sprinkle with dried beans, bake at 425°F for 12 minutes.
• Remove foil and beans.
• Bake 5 minutes longer or until lightly browned.

Steps:

• From this recipe I made one 9" tart and 6 small individual tarts in a mince pie tin. You could use a larger tart dish or make around 16 individual small tarts.
• For sweet rice flour pastry use recipe http://www.food.com/recipe/rice-flour-pastry-16478/ (I add a couple of pinches of xanthan gum to this linked recipe so the pastry holds together better).
• Line pan/dish with pastry by pressing in the pastry dough. You can press it fairly thin and it will hold together with the xanthan gum added. If you get holes or the pastry is so thin you can see the tin through it you can just press in a little more dough and it will blend together. Bake blind for 5 minutes at gas mark 5.
• Now make the sponge mix for the topping. Cream together the butter and sugar. Add egg, rice flour and the baking powder then beat. Add almond essence (or amaretto).
• Line the pastry with strawberry jam (apricot jam also works well for a frangipane test) and pour the sponge mix over it into the pastry.
• Bake at gas 7 until sponge is golden brown. (Approximate timings I think around 20-30 minutes for a single tart and 15-20 minutes for small individual tarts).
• The sponge will froth up as it cooks but this will settle once it's out of the oven.

Steps:

• Whisk the rice flour, sugar, salt, and baking powder together in a bowl. Work in the shortening until the mixture resembles sand. Stir in the water and vanilla extract.
• Bake as directed in your recipe, or at 375 degrees F (190 degrees C) for 5 minutes until golden.

Steps:

• Line small cupcake pans with rounds of uncooked rich pastry. Put 1/2 tsp of raspberry jam in each.
• Cream butter and sugar and add eggs. Blend in flour, almond extract and salt.
• Top each tart with this mixture and bake at 375 for about 25 minutes.

Steps:

• Cook the sweet potato by steaming or boiling, then mash it until smooth (discard skin). Put it in a bowl and refrigerate at least 2 hours before starting the pie.
• Put the rice flour, xanthan gum and baking powder into a large mixing bowl and stir them all together.
• Take the sweet potato out of the fridge and add the dry ingredients into the mash.
• Sprinkle the counter with a few tablespoons of rice flour and knead the dough until it's no longer sticky.
• Press the dough into a ball and then cover and refrigerate for another 30 minutes (I skip this step if I need to make the pie immediately).
• Take the dough out of the fridge and roll it out on a floured surface, then press it into your greased pie pan. (I sometimes need a spatula to help pick it all up at once, it's more fragile than regular pastry dough and may need a little help being transferred from the counter to the pan).
• Bake the shell right away or fill it first with the fruit or pie ingredients of your choice. Baking time depends on the kind of pie but it's usually around 40 minutes.