Thursday, May 30, 2013

Gluten free white bread

My husband has celiacs , which means, no wheat, or barley or anything with gluten. now this diet is becoming much more common and the "gluten free" label is getting to be a standard thing to see at the grocery store. It was not always that way. Back when we got married i had to learn to cook gluten free pretty much on my own with the help of two sad cookbooks and my husband
I got the hang of somethings after about a year, but the "perfect" bread recipe eluded me. I wanted something that i thought tasted good too (i can eat gluten) finally i just said "the heck with it, i will just make up my own!" Guess what?? It WORKED! its so very yummy you can eat it right out of the oven with just butter on it. So here it is:
Gluten free white bread:
1 tbs rapid rise yeast
1/4 cup sugar
1 tbs xanthum gum
1 cup white rice flour
1/2 cup brown rice flour
1/2 cup tap flour
1/2 cup corn starch
1 tea salt
1/4 cup dry milk
1 tbs canola oil
1/2 tea vanilla
1 cup milk
1/4 cup melted butter or margarine
2 eggs
 warm the milk and add the sugar and the yeast, set it aside
mix all the dry ingredients together in a heavy mixer
mix and add the wet in. when its all combined turn the mixer on med high and mix for two to three min.Until it has smoothed out against the sides of the mixer. It should NOT look like a typical bread dough. If yours does just mix it for a few more min, it will eventually relax into the thinner consistency we need. Once its right, cover and set in a warm moist area  let rise 20-30 min
poor into a greased bread pan, smooth out the top with wet fingers or the back of a wet spoon. Gluten free is VERY sticky so just keep that in mind, don't try to add extra flour, that will just make it heavy and crumbly.  let the bread dough rise an additional 30 min, sometimes up to an hour. i usually preheat the oven to 175 and then open the door to warm the air it helps rise faster .It should rise well above the top of the pan. bake at 50 for about 55 min. After take it out of the oven, immediately dump the loaf from the pan and set out . Enjoy it , i usually put it in a zip-lock bag after its cool to keep it moist.

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