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Bakery owner brings gluten-free treats to Dickerson Run

Made-to-order gluten-free baked delights are now available at Lisa's Gluten Free Bakery in Dickerson Run.

Lisa Brower, owner, was diagnosed with celiac sprue disease in 1997. It was a life-changing diagnosis for her because she had been baking since she was 12 years old and very much enjoyed breads, pastries and baked goods.

"I tried product after product that wasn't fit to eat and finally just gave up all the foods I used to love," she said. "The aroma of baked goods was like torture so I even stopped baking for my family. After a few years I tried baking with a gluten-free cookbook, but the food still didn't taste like the food I remembered eating."

Then Brower just got out her old recipe box one day, picked a recipe she was hungry for and rewrote it, using a variety of gluten-free flours. After a few years of blending and tasting, her baked goods began to taste like the wonderful food she remembered. The grit was gone and the flavor was delicious, she said.

Brower knew what it was like to have to give up the baked foods and so, having earned a degree in business marketing and management and confident in her gluten-free recipes she set created the new business in order to share the gluten-free recipes with others.

Gluten-free items cannot contain wheat, barley or rye. The main ingredient Brower uses is xanthan gum, although she also uses others such as gelatin and guar gum. In addition, she created her own flour blend that is in almost everything she makes.

Gluten-free breads, fresh baked by order at Lisa's Gluten Free Bakery are sandwich, Italian, baguette, onion, potato and monkey bread. Buns include hamburger, hot dog, Kaiser, onion, hoagie (plain or herb), dinner roll, buttermilk biscuits, English muffins, croutons and stuffing bread. Pizza dough comes frozen in both balls and flats. Breadstick flavors are cinnamon sugar, plain, garlic and herb. Cookies include peanut butter, peanut butter kiss, chocolate chip, chocolate chunk, chocolate peanut butter chips, oatmeal (no bakes), oatmeal raisin, thumbprints, snicker doodles, snowballs (Russian tea), sugared, sugar cut-outs, sugar spiral, white chocolate, oatmeal cranberry walnut, chocolate-covered cherry cookie, peanut butter cup, filled, nut tassies and bear claws (cinnamon nut roll).

Also available are mini fruit pastries, popovers, brownies and chocolate, orange and pumpkin gobs and apricot and nut rolls. Mini fruit pies include cherry, apple and peach. Cakes and cupcakes and mini cupcakes are available in chocolate, vanilla and red velvet. Choices of specialty cakes and breads are zucchini bread, pumpkin bread and orange-cranberry cake.

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