I don’t know about you but I’ve just about had it with ‘gluten free’ everything, from potato chips to ketchup to flour. If you look at the labels, however, you’ll find that sugar and unpronounceable chemicals make up the bulk of the ingredients. Yuck. That’s a far cry from flour, water, yeast and salt and the seductive scents of a fresh-baked loaf. For us, Christmas is a season for cooking like mad for days then eating the items we tend to avoid during the year – rich cakes laden with fruit and laced with booze, shortbread/butter cookies light with rice flour and baked blonde-brown in a gentle oven, pound cakes, rolled cookies, Eagle Brand condensed milk cookie bars so sweet with candied fruit they’ll…

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