NO GLUTEN LICORICE WITH PULSE
FLOUR AVAILABLE FOR CHRISTMAS
PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
Alberta-made no gluten added licorice
containing Canadian len l flour as the
main ingredient will be for sale in me
for the holiday season.
"We were working on no gluten
added licorice with red len l flour as
the main ingredient for two years,"
said Jean Purschke, owner/operator of
A.J.'s Licorice. "Ini ally, it was too hard
of a bite and you don't want to chew,
chew, chew. The recipe was fine, but
it was the drying me that needed
work, so we have been working on
that for the last year or so. Now
finally, we have a finished product."
Sherwood Park's Purschke is also the
owner of Aun e Jean's Fudge. She first
made licorice for a family Christmas
get-together in 2015. Unfortunately,
the wheat flour that licorice is usually
made with resulted in a family
member with celiac disease missing
out on the treat. But that just turned
on the light bulb for Purschke.
When she learned about the
opportunity to work with scien sts
on a product for The Alberta Pulse
Showcase being held for Interna onal
Year of Pulses in 2016, the ball really
got rolling.
"It's radically different to create a
product using a pulse flour versus a
wheat flour," noted Purschke, who has
always enjoyed pulses, but was new
to pulse flour. "The scien sts figured
Extruding licorice paste into pieces.
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