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Gluten Free Ginger Snaps

These soft chewy ginger snap cookies are too good to be just pigeon holed as a holiday treat, so make them all year long. If you are celiac or are extremely sensitive to gluten, you should buy your whole grain and ancient grain flours in sealed bags and make sure they are certified gluten free. If you are just trying to limit your gluten or aren’t extremely sensitive to gluten, you may want to visit a health store and buy your flours in the bulk bins. You can buy smaller amounts of flour for less money that way. Just be aware that the bulk bins may have cross contamination with gluten filled flours near them.

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Why it works: Teff and chia share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 6 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

30 cookies
Prep15 min
Cook12 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (177°C) and line two baking sheets with parchment paper.

  2. In a bowl, whisk together the teff flour, tapioca flour, sweet rice flour, buckwheat flour, baking soda, kosher salt, cinnamon, ginger, ground pepper and ground cloves.

  3. In a small bowl, stir the chia seeds into the egg and let sit for 5 minutes until slightly thickened.

  4. In a large bowl, beat the butter and white granulated sugar until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Beat in the chia egg, molasses and vanilla.

  5. Add the dry ingredients to the wet mixture and stir until just combined. Fold in the chopped crystallized ginger.

  6. Chill the dough for 15 minutes so it is easier to shape.

  7. Roll the dough into 30 balls, about 1 tablespoon each, and place them 2 inches apart on the prepared sheets. Flatten each ball slightly with your palm.

  8. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes, until the edges are set and the tops look dry and cracked. Cool on the sheets for 5 minutes, then move to a rack to cool completely.

By eatthelove. Recipe from Open Recipes.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Teff + chiatop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together6 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Teff + flourtop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together24 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Flour + buckwheattop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together651 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Flour + chiatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together47 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Rice + buckwheattop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together48 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Flavor stand-ins for the vanilla

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (teff, flour, rice, buckwheat, egg, chia, molasses):

  1. Coconutabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Vanillathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against teff, flour, rice, buckwheat, egg, chia, molasses. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).