The Milk-Free Kitchen: Living Well Without Dairy Products

by Beth Kidder, Harold M. Friedman (Introduction)

Here is the only all-purpose, appetizers-to-candy cookbook for the millions of Americans who must avoid having milk and milk products in their diets. Included here are many easy-to-follow recipes for baked goods (which are usually laden with dairy products) for the lactose intolerant or milk-allergic sufferer who must either learn to bake milk-free or go without cakes, cookies, pies, muffins, biscuits, and puddings. The appendix also lists recipes for baked goods that are egg-free.

"Most people who deal with food intolerances day in and day out become pretty good 'scratch' cooks. I wrote this book as an all-occasion cookbook. The idea is to give you lots of choices. The Milk-Free Kitchen is focused on all the things you can have. The idea behind every recipe here is that the food should taste good. I hope you will enjoy your milk-free meals and that you and the people with whom you share them will not feel deprived or 'different'"―Beth Kidder

Genres: Cooking, Cookbooks

480 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1991

Reviews

[Cathy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very helpful. Found some things I can eat! Yay!

[BookBec · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's an older cookbook (1988/91), so some ingredients and advice are dated. Margarine, anyone? On the plus side, it's a very wide-ranging cookbook, which would be particularly good for a beginning cook who's dealing with a milk allergy from the start. Lots of basic recipes -- like the author says, it's a book of things you *can* eat. Many pages are devoted to baking: breads, cakes, cookies, pies, doughnuts, etc.

For a more experienced cook needing to adapt to a milk allergy, this book's not so useful. I was interested in the recipes for foods that often include dairy products, like coleslaw (use oil & vinegar), bread pudding (use coconut milk), or sour cream dips (use tofu). I found a half-dozen items of interest from 400+ pages: a three-star book.

[Barb · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pretty good book and doesn't exclude the other major food allergens, so more to work with. I have alot of the pages bookmarked that I want the recipe to try in the future. I think this is the one that I tried the Sweet and Sour Pork recipe and it was awesome. Renewed once already from the library!

[Cristin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good recipes.