**I wasn't going to post this on my public art related blog originally. However, it got such a response on Xanga that I decided to post it here as well. It seems that a lot of people have to deal with food sensitivities, for themselves and their children.****
We like this ice cream maker!
We used it to make lemon sorbet, lemon sorbet sweetened with sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup. Earlier this school year, we figured out (after 4 years of unexplained pain & cramps) that daughter is sensitive to corn products and HFCS is in just about everything. Pre-made sugar sweetened treats are expensive. We've also found that the entire family prefers to eat the expensive sugar sweetened treats. So I am learning how to make our own, even if I have to buy expensive household appliances to do it for me ;).
Imagine your two year old waking up screaming every night with leg cramps. Imagine these inexplicable muscle aches, sore legs, stomach cramps going on, with no explanation and just confused sympathetic looks from the medical people. Imagine that everyone thinks you are the overprotective overconcerned overwrought mother, or that you and your daughter are just over sensitive drama queens!!!! Oh that pissed me off. So imagine my relief to finally find a real, true, concrete solution. Cutting out corn products has made a huge improvement and nearly eliminated these symptoms. I'd say about 95% better. She is still a sensitive person, physically and emotionally. She always will be. But now we knows at least one way to make life much much easier- just don't eat corn products. She is six now. I wish we would have figured it out earlier.
Now if someone could please teach me how to make suckers and other candies without corn syrup.
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what about rock candy? It would not have the same texture, but it could be flavoured in a variety of ways...http://www.exploratorium.edu/cooking/candy/recipe-rockcandy.html
also, for maple-flavoured suckers, you can boil maple syrup and then pour it onto a layer of shaved ice (over popsicle sticks)
kirsten, my mom deals with this and it is such a pain.
she has also found that she has some problems with other ingredients that must contain corn but are not explicitly corn syrup.
Most old-timey recipes use simple sugar, and you can find them at living history farms, re-enactment communities, and historical societies. Sometimes old churches will have copies of cook books from a long time ago.
I started an elimination diet a few months ago for food sensitivity; I had no idea how much daily pain I was used to. Here's to a much healthier life!
yummyearth.com .... organic, all natural candy made w/o HFCS! I am corn/gluten/dairy free and are able to tolerate them well. They made hard candy and gummybears!
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