Making Gluten Free Bread in the Breadmaker
(You can also mix this by hand and cook it in the oven at 220 Celcius)
If you have tried and failed - don't worry! So have I!
I have several Gluten Free recipee books and most of them require 6 or 7 types of flours which, (get real) I have not got nor have I the time to source them all.
It proves very expensive to make bread this way and left me hungry and defeated.
I have now perfected GF bread making in the bread maker and I am pleased with the results.
I buy the GF pre-mixed bread making flour and have adapted them to suit my bread maker.
I have also used plain GF baking flour which works just as well with this recipe.
A few tips:
Make sure the bread maker is completely cleaned as any previous residue may contaminate your bread.
Check all ingredients including the yeast to make sure they are Gluten Free and don't use it you are not sure.
Beware of using milk powders with numbers listed on the ingredients as these may contain gluten.
If you are going to toast your bread, clean the toaster out first but it is hard to do this so I toast my bread on a clean tray under the grill.
Some of the flours taste a little wierd (especially pea flour) so you may like to add some freshly chopped garlic to the butter or oil and heat it for 40 seconds in the microwave or on a pot on the stove to infuse it before adding to the mix in the breadmaker. This will disguise the taste.
I add poppy seeds, sundried tomato, basil, dried olives etc to give the bread some taste and for variety.
Cheese also works instead of butter.
This bread will be good for about 3 days or you may like to slice it then freeze it to keep it fresher.
Save all your crusts and leftover bread and freeze it. Use them to replace pie crust and make bread and butter puddings. YUM!
Use this recipe for scones and pizza base.
Ingredients:
- Breadmaker on setting 1 (or any normal white bread setting)
- 400mls lukewarm water
- 1 large tsp GF yeast
- 1 large tsp white sugar
- 50g salted GF butter
- 3 cups of pre-mixed GF flour
Add the yeast to the water and leave sitting for a few minutes until the yeast starts to work, then pour into the breadmaker.
On top of the yeast add 3 cups of pre-mixed GF flour.
Melt 50 grams butter in the microwave in a cup and then stir in 1 egg (optional - the egg can help bind the bread together if it tends to crumble which is the downfall of all GF breads)
For GF bread I use less water and more flour than tradional wheat flour recipes and find butter gives a better texture and flavour than oil but you can use oil and it works just as well.
When the bread maker is mixing the dough, you will see it is a very sloppy mixture. This is normal. If it is too sloppy your bread will sink when you cook it and it ends up with a big crater in the middle of it. I had this problem when I stated and lowered the water and upped the flour contents. You may have a bit of fiddling to do with your own mix but I hope this saves you the dissappointments I had when starting out.
I know what it is like to be so hungry and have nothing that I actually WANT to eat.
Having bread is a real luxury and I make toasted sandwiches when it starts to feel a little stale.
There is nothing like the smell of fresh bread cooking in the house to cheer me up when I am feeling sorry for myself because I can't eat....
