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Vegan - Gluten Free Yorkshire Puddings

Vegan - Gluten Free Yorkshire Puddings

We are far from Vegan but the Gluten Free element is required. This was a bit of a challenge Sue set herself when one of our friends who has a Vegan husband remarked that he missed Yorkshire Puddings. They're not quite like a traditional Yorkshire, but they are a pretty good alternative.
 
Some of the flours were tricky to find locally. We used Amazon.
 
Ingredients:-
 
75g Gram flour
25g Cornflour
25g Potato Starch
25g Tapioca flou2 ¼ tsp Baking Powder
¼ tsp salt
¼ tsp Turmeric
¼ tsp Dijon Mustard
¾ tsp Cider Vinegar
6 tbsp / 90 ml Aquafaba ( The juice from tinned Chick Peas )
360ml Water
Oil for the tray
 
Method:-
 
(1) Add all the flours, Baking Powder and Salt and whisk them together.
(2) Combine Mustard, Cider Vinegar, Aquafaba & Water and whisk together.
(3) Pour the liquids into the dry ingredients, whisk together until smooth and bubbly.
(4) Pour into a jug and rest for 10 minutes.
(5) Add Oil to muffing tray and heat until smoking hot.
(6) Fill the tray with the liquid almost to the top and cook for 30 / 35 minutes at 220c until golden and crispy.
 
We made two batches one cooked 5 minutes longer (35 minutes) which had a better texture.

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UN Report on Poverty in the UK November 2018Here is what Professor Philip Alston Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights for the UN has to say about poverty in the UK in 2018
 
I have  actually found the original report which is here (Just in case I'm seen to be misquoting)
 
“ …......While the labour and housing markets provide the crucial backdrop, the focus of this report is on the contribution made by social security and related policies. 
 
The results? 14 million people, a fifth of the population, live in poverty. Four million of these are more than 50% below the poverty line, and 1.5 million are destitute, unable to afford basic essentials. The widely respected Institute for Fiscal Studies predicts a 7% rise in child poverty between 2015 and 2022, and various sources predict child poverty rates of as high as 40%. For almost one in every two children to be poor in twenty-first century Britain is not just a disgrace, but a social calamity and an economic disaster, all rolled into one. 
 
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Although the provision of social security to those in need is a public service and a vital anchor to prevent people being pulled into poverty, the policies put in place since 2010 are usually discussed under the rubric of austerity. But this framing leads the inquiry in the wrong direction. In the area of poverty-related policy, the evidence points to the conclusion that the driving force has not been economic but rather a commitment to achieving radical social re-engineering. Successive governments have brought revolutionary change in both the system for delivering minimum levels of fairness and social justice to the British people, and especially in the values underpinning it. Key elements of the post-war Beveridge social contract are being overturned. In the process, some good outcomes have certainly been achieved, but great misery has also been inflicted unnecessarily, especially on the working poor, on single mothers struggling against mighty odds, on people with disabilities who are already marginalized, and on millions of children who are being locked into a cycle of poverty from which most will have great difficulty escaping. 
 
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In addition to all of the negative publicity about Universal Credit in the UK media and among politicians of all parties, I have heard countless stories from people who told me of the severe hardships they have suffered under Universal Credit. When asked about these problems, Government ministers were almost entirely dismissive, blaming political opponents for wanting to sabotage their work, or suggesting that the media didn’t really understand the system and that Universal Credit was unfairly blamed for problems rooted in the old legacy system of benefits. “
 
The full report is 24 pages long and these are only extracts. Very little of the remainder of the report is any more positive however.
 

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