Please help me make edible GF/CF bread...

[silverfrog]

Dd1 is GF/CF (as is dd2 for now, until we are sure about her development).

I am fed up with paying a fortune for barely edible bread, and so decided to make my own.

I have a breadmaker, researched it all, have used acouple of different recipes, and the results are truly disgusting.

I think it's down to the oil I'm using (Meridian Sunflower oil) - it tastes really strong, and totally overpowers the bread - is this normal? Is the oil rancid? Or am I just using manky recipes?

Any ideas (and suggestions for oils?)

Thanks

This book is really helpful.
It takes you through the processes from scratch rather than giving breadmaker recipes so you may need to experiment a bit for the breadmaker, but you ought to gain a good enough understanding from the book to be able to do that confidently.

I have some fab recipes in a book. Having brain fade today what's CF?

I'll type a couple out for you if they are suitable :O)

ooh, if you wouldn't mind typing some out, that would be great. CF is dairy (casein) free as well, so I'd have to use rice or soya milk.

I just ned to get something vaguely edible - I'm trying to get the dds eating sandwiches, but I can't really blame them for not touching current offerings!

Thanks for the link, Kathy, but I have a few bread books already - I have no idea why it's all going so badly wrong. I was hoping someone was going to come along and say "oh yes, don't ever use sunflower oil, it makes it taste horrible" but looks like it's not that simple!

Well sunflower oil should be fine (it's what I normally use), so if you're tasting it perhaps it is rancid.

you don't have to use oil at all, of course, it's just it makes it keep better.

what flour are you using?

have tasted the oil, and it tasted ok, but that is what the bread is tasting of, and that's not ok - it leaves a very strong after taste.

Have tried Doves farm flour mix, and also a self mix (according to recipe) of potato starch, tapioca starch and white rice flour.

WHilst I know it is nowhere as good as normal bread, I was expecting edible without retching..

I am, normally, very good at baking, so this is really pissing me off...

Hmm I also use a self mix of those flours but we found the bread ok!

Anyway these are the two recipes we have used with DS who is wheat free (although bread recipes are GF).

White gluten-free flour mix
(Makes 650 g)

50g tapioca flour
50g cornflour
100g potato flour
450g white rice flour

Mix all together. Store in covered container, use as required.

Everyday White Bread

Makes 1 medium loaf

1 egg
350ml water
4 tbsp sunflower oil (I use tescos own)
1 tsp lemon juice
1.5 tsp salt
1.5 tbsp caster sugar
400g white gluten free flour mix
1 tbsp xanthum gum
1 tbsp active yeast

1. Beat together the egg and water, then pour into the breadmaker pan.

1. Add all the remaining ingredients in the order listed.

1. Set the machine to Basic, 1.5lb dark crust.

1. When cooked, switch off the machine and leave the bread to cool in the breadmaker for 10 minutes.

1. Turn the bread out of the pan on to a wire rack. When cool enough to handle, remove the paddle if necessary.

1. When cold, store in the bread bin for up to four days or slice and freeze.

Milk Loaf

Makes 1 medium loaf

1 large egg
275 ml milk
1 tbsp sunflower oil
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 tbsp caster sugar
225g white rice flour
2 tsp xanthum gum
1 sachet of easy blend dried yeast (6g)

1. Beat together the egg and milk, then pour into the breadmaker pan.

1. Add all the remaining ingredients in the order listed.

1. Set the machine to Basic, 1.5lb dark crust but allow to cook for 40 mins only or until golden and firm to the touch and shrinking slightly from the sides of the pan.

1. When cooked, switch off the machine and leave the bread to cool in the breadmaker for 10 minutes.

1. Turn the bread out of the pan onto a wire rack. When cool enough to handle, remove the paddle, if necessary.

1. When cold, store in the bread bin for up to four days or slice and freeze.

This is the one we are favouring at the moment! DS loves it and compared to prescription breads tastes like heaven lol. I have cooked it for the full time in my breadmaker (forgot it lol) and it was fine.

Neither bread rises hugely but the texture is still ok.

The book they are taken from is 'Amazing Gluten-free Bread & Cakes from your Breadmaker' by Carolyn Humphries

I have bought bread from here www.thecakehole.com/ sadly they are expensive but they are bl**dy good and taste near enough normal! £3.00 a loaf though. (they do mail order)