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On 20 Oct 2004 01:03:40 -0700, (Mary Irene)
wrote:

>A while back, in my painstaking pursuit of wonderful desem bread, I
>followed the recipe in Laurel's Bread Book, which takes 2-3 weeks to
>create the starter. Lo and behold in doing the daily kneading I
>discovered I had a real allergy to wheat; my hands and forearms broke
>out in a rash and after a little careful experimenting, I realized I
>am also intolerant of ingested wheat.

If touching wheat gives you a rash, you're probably allergic to wheat,
not gluten intolerant. I have a friend who gets terrible eczema from
wheat, and he can eat rye which has gluten and would work better than
buckwheat for your desem. You might even be able to eat spelt and
kamut--they're different enough from regular wheat that some allergic
people can eat them.

--Rebecca