Gluten Free Halloween Soup Scary food, blood red tomato soup with with witches fingers. Yes this is a Gluten Free Halloween treat for children and we will take a standard brand cream of tomato soup and decorate it to look like a spider web accompanied with witches fingers. The Gluten Free Halloween recipe below will make 4 portions and from start to finish it should take you at most 30 minutes of cooking time, but do keep looking at the fingers to make sure that they do not burn. Before you start you should heat the oven up to 220?C , 425?F/Gas Mark 7 Our ingredients cover the soup and the fingers. For the soup you will need 150ml/ 1/4pt Carton single cream 2 Large cans cream of tomato soup For the witches fingers you need to get 250g/ 9oz of suitable Bread Mix 1 x 5ml tsp Dried yeast 50g/ 2oz Ground rice 50g/ 2oz of grated mature Cheddar cheese 25g/ 1oz Pumpkin seeds for the witches hand warts 1 x 5ml tsp Mild paprika 175ml/ 6 fl oz Hand hot water 1 x 15ml tbsp Mild olive oil 25g/ 1oz pecan halves for the witches nails First you need to prepare the gluten free whitches fingers. Combine the gluten free flour mix and ground rice in a medium size bowl. Also stir in the yeast, paprika, olive oil and half the cheese. Add the warm water to this mix and using a large fork stir the mix untilit has combined to a stiff batter. Spoon the mix into a squeezy tomato ketchup bottle with plastic lid or into a piping bag fitted with a plain nozzle to create a piping tool. Pipe the fresh mix out into finger lengths and sprinkle these with the remaining cheese. Push in pumpkin seed warts randomly over the fingers and position a pecan nail onto the end of each finger. Sprinkle all this with the remaining cheese. Cover the fingers with oiled cling film and leave to prove for about 40 minutes until slightly risen they are now ready for cooking. Remove the film and cook these gluten free fingers until golden. Serving a Gluten Free Halloween meal is the important part to maintain the atmosphere, remember this is a haloween meal and should be scarey. Warm up the tinned soup and pour it into some haloween style bowls. Pierce the foil lid to make a smallpouring hole in the cream carton. Pour the cream into concentric rings on top of the soup to make a web pattern. Drag a knife from the centre of the ring out to the bowl edge at regular intervals to feather the rings to look like a spider web. Put a small gluten free biscuit at the center shaped like a spider Serve soup accompanied by the cooked witches' fingers. We hope that your Gluten Free Halloween meal went down well and no one got turned into a frog.

Gluten Free Tips #1 Advise the chief. When you go to a restaurant or when you go to a friends tell the chief that you are allergic to Gluten. Most will be very aware of the condition, it is covered in most culinary courses, and they will be only too happy to help you. Gluten intolerance is only one of a hundred food intolerance in modern society so catering for a guests food preferences is all part of the standard service for a modern restaurant. this.

Gluten Free Tips #2 Read the label. These days most manufacturers print the full list of food ingredients on the food packaging for the foods you buy in the shops. Read the ingredient and reject any food products that are not clear. There are many suppliers so reward the ones who try to help you.

Gluten Free Tips #3 Take restaurant cards on holiday. When you go on holiday to a place that speaks another language you do not want to trust to your rusty language skills to explain to the waitress that you are gluten intolerant. Take a foreign language prepared card outlining your condition. In this way you do not put the waitress under pressure, the details are clearly explained in the local language and the card can be passed direct to the chief avoiding any miscommunication.