gluten free bread

[DoctorWhoFan]

Hi folks, has anyone got a tried and trusted recipe for a gluten free loaf that they wouldn't mind sharing with me? Lots of the recipes I've tried either turn out a bit brick-like (and I have no difficulties making normal bread), or there is a list of ingredients as long as your arm which rather seems like over complicating something which shouldn't really be that hard!

I have a veggie friend who is coeliac and also can't have cow's milk and I want to be able to make her some nice bread.

Thanks in advance!

I've tried a few, not much success. Luckily, DH's diagnosis was not confirmed. Good luck in your quest.

I'm keeping an eye on this thread, my attempts so far have not been great . On the plus side tesco has started doing a bloomer that ds loves but like all gf stuff it's bloody expensive

Yeah, it's partly the cost factor for my friend, and the lack of choice/taste. And I must admit I've looked at the ingredients lists on loads of free from items and not really liked what I saw. And also felt that I could probably do a better job on the healthy ingredients front!

I'm struggling with making successful gluten free biscuits too. I'm getting some xanthan gum as I keep seeing that suggested as a gluten substitute...

Bumping in the hope anyone has any ideas...

I have to eat gluten free food for the rest of my life and I bake all my own cakes, tarts and bread.

To be honest, I have given up on gluten free bread though. It is in essence just made like a cake with yeast as the rising agent. It is dense.

What I do instead is make things like banana loaf, walnut loaf, apple loaf, Potugese rice cake, gluten free oat porridge, gluten free oat muesli and cornbread for breakfast and then lots of nice fancy cakes and tarts for tea and dinner.

I occassioanlly buy a Genius gluten free loaf if I am visiting someones house and staying over. Other than that I just stopped eating gluten free bread.

I do not like all the weird ingredients in shop bought gluten free products. I also avoid Xanthan gum if at all posisble. I use dried egg white or 'Two Chicks' liquid egg white instead in cakes and pastries. It works well.

Xanthan gum causes pastry to taste slightly bitter and frankly is not very good for you. It is just a glue in the end and dried egg white (with a little water added) does the same thing. Gluten free bread recipes do not work with dried egg white though - I tried.

If I were you I would make lovely GF cakes and tarts for your friend and just buy in a bit of Genius bread.

I find things like Victoria sponge cakes work wonderfully well with gluten free flour just using a normal recipe but replacing the wheat self raising flour with Doves GF self raising flour plus an extra teaspoon of baking powder.

I'm also concerned at the lack of nutrition/ complicated ingredients in gluten free bread. this isn't answering op (sorry) but you buy Genius bread at Whole Foods it at least doesn't have calcium promotionate as made to a slightly different recipe without preservatives.

I buy GF bread from an online shop Celia's Kitchen I like (DD loves their cupcakes too or make my own sprouted quinoa rice bread which is my favourite when I have time and healthy . It's more dense but just delicious and the whole family wades in! www.pattycake.ca/recipes/quinoaricebread

Me too looseleaf. Thanks for the link for the quinoa bread. I think I shall give that a try.