Put fruit in 2 1/2 quart dish. Drip lemon juice over the fruit, if desired. Sprinkle 1/4 cup sugar over
Make batter: Cream together melted margarine (or oil) and 1/2 cup sugar. Add milk, then rice flour, tapioca flour, potato starch, xanthan gum and baking powder. Mix well and spread over fruit. This will be thick.
Topping: Mix 1/2 cup sugar and thickener (sweet rice flour or cornstarch) in bowl. Sprinkle over batter. I think you could use less here. Slowly pour hot water over all
Bake at 375 °F for close to an hour.
Notes
Sweet rice flour is found in the Asian section. This is a thickener, so I imagine you could also use tapioca flour, etc. Originally called for cornstarch.
If you don't have a safe margarine, you can substitute oil, and the recipe will work. I think it's a bit better with melted margarine, though.
It may look strange when you put water on but it really does work.
Substitutions
Those who can have wheat could replace the 1/3 cup each rice flour, potato starch, and tapioca starch with 1 cup wheat flour, and omit the xanthan gum.
If not avoiding corn, one of the starches can be replaced with corn starch.
Do not omit the sweet rice flour or cornstarch in the final sugar topping.
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