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Wheat & Gluten Free Pizza/bread recipies?

November 142008

Hi

I was wondering if anyone could help, does anyone have a recipe for wheat free and Gluten free pizza base thats easy to make as some of them baffle me thats all, and i am not finding the love with supermarket subsitutes lol….

Thanks

Funky

Hey so I am really into using the mixes for bread/pizza crust. I do make these things from scratch but I have had much better success with mixes. The ones I like the best:

Pamela’s Products (actually anything from Pamela’s): http://www.pamelasproducts.com/

Gluten Free Pantry:
http://www.glutino.com/content/view/86/110/

Also on the topic of gluten-free bread I highly recommend a bread maker!

is yeast made from wheat and does it contain gluten?

September 262008

my wife is going wheat ang gluten free for health reasons but i,m confused as some gluten free recipes (ie) bread making requires yeast

yeast does not contain glutein. yeast is a micro-organism that eats sugar and makes gas, this is what causes bread to rise. gluetin is a molecule that is found in wheat, barley and other grains. your wife should be safe with corn and rice for carbohydrates. i am assuming she has celiac disease so there must be tons of resources out there for recipes and stuff like that to help. best of luck it is a tough disease.

What are potato buds? Where can I buy them?

September 252008

I need potato buds for a gluten free bread recipe, any store I have asked has never heard of them, do they maybe have a different name in Canada than in the US?

Any type of instant potato flakes will work in your recipe. Potato buds is actually a brand name of one kind of instant potato flakes. So just go buy a small box of instant potato flakes and you'll be good to go. Good luck on the bread.

Does xanthan gum simulate yeast?

September 222008

I ask because I'm looking at a gluten free bread recipe includes xanthan gum, and wikipedia has this summary about the gum:

"Xanthan gum is a polysaccharide used as a food additive and rheology modifier.(Davidson ch. 24) It is produced by a process involving fermentation of glucose or sucrose by the Xanthomonas campestris bacterium."

um…hello…isn't this the stuff you get when you mix yeast and sugar and stuff and let it sit warm for a while?

I don't blame you for being confused. I used to do dietetic cooking and baking, including GF baking. Allow me to explain:

Xanthan gum doesn't function as yeast/leavener; it mimics the function of gluten in flour. XG turns the dough gummy and sticky, which permits the dough to trap gas bubbles from the yeast(or other leavener), which in turn allows the dough to rise. Imagine if you will a large piece of bubble gum. That's the texture of wheat flour dough, and with xg, that will also be the approximate texture of your GF dough.

Now onto the matter of xg and fermentation. XG is made by fermentation, it does not itself ferment. Many things are made by fermentation. In the case of XG, sugars are digested by bacteria, and they excrete xanthan gum. Yummy, huh? Another example is vanilla. Vanilla flavor is created by the fermentation of vanilla bean pods. But it doesn't itself ferment or create fermentation in cookery. Many other things are created by fermentation.

Rheology. There's a word for the game shows. Basically it means "the study of viscosity properties of substances." The next time you see a toddler playing with his booger, you can say he's conducting a rheology study.

Does anyone know about a wheat free all purpose flour?

September 212008

I just bought some wheat / gluten free bread, and it tastes rather gross. I've found a recipe for a wheat free all purpose flour but I'm not sure if I can use that for a substitue for regualr all purpose flour. I was wondering if I took a regular bread recipe and instead of using the regular all purpose flour used the wheat free all purpose will it still come out tasting like normal bread? And if so can I do that with any regular recipe I have and just substitue the flour? Will it make a big difference in the taste?
Also if anyone knows of any good tasting wheat and gluten free foods please let me know about them. I really dont want to waste my money on food thats just nasty.
And if you're allergic to wheat is it okay to eat spelt bread? And if so what does it taste like? Is it better then rice bread? and if so how?

"Normal" bread works because of chemistry that requires the wheat gluten to create a framework within the bread. Making gluten free bread requires very different recipes so you can't just substitute gluten free flour into a bread recipe from "The Joy of Cooking." You will need to seek out gluten free recipes and measure very carefully because you are on the bleeding edge of food chemistry when you take away a protein structure which has been a part of human cuisine for thousands of years.

gluten free, celiac, gluten intolerant -recipe substitutions advice - please read?

September 202008

I am getting ready to make sme zucchini bread- the recipe calls for brown rice flour- I have every other kind of GF flour but brown rice flour. Can I use white rice flour or some other GF flour with the same results or a flour blend or shoud I just attempt to grind my brown rice into flour (I am really trying to avoid having to do that?
I have sorghum, white rice flour , quinoa, coconut flour, tapioca flour, potato flour and garbanzo bean flour. I am happy with the recipe that I have but if you have a recipe suggestion too I owuld be haooy to take it- I just need simple but tasty today!
My biggest need is an appropriate and tasty flour or flour blend substitution

I would tryi t with just the white rice flour (really not much difference except brown rice is healthier.)
But in the future I'd try getting Bette Hagmans Gluten Free Gourmet cookbook. She has a great flour mixture in her books that works well in most things calling for a flour mix. (RIP bette!)

Egg free wheat free bread recipe?

September 192008

I need a recipe that is egg free and wheat free that has a good texture and taste. I have egg replacer on hand and just about every gluten free flour and xantham gum. No lecithin though.
Thanks.

Try www.bhg.com..

I really want the recipe for Sami's Millet & Flax Gluten free Bread!!?

September 182008

I bought Bette Hagman's "Bakes Bread" book hoping to be able to figure out the recipe for this bread I love. In trying to find an acceptable alternative, I have made a variety of breads, some tasty but with lots of empty calories and yeast. The yeast free breads I've made are just sawdust flavored bricks of varying moistness. Sami's bread is made in Tampa, and the wrapper states that it has only these six nutrient dense ingredients:

Millet flour, Brown Rice Flour, Water, aluminum free baking powder, Sea salt, flax seeds.

It doesn't seem at all like a quick bread, I wonder if they've got some kind of gluten free sourdough type leavening going on. I plan to move out of Florida, and would love to be able to duplicate this recipe so I can keep eating my nutrient dense bread.

Thank you.

Have you thought of contacting the Sami's Bread people either by phone or on the web? The bread package probably has an 800 number or a web address. If not, do a search for Sami's Bread Bakery. Or, if it's locally made, try the white or yellow pages.

Need a tried and trusted bread recipe?

September 172008

A basic white/wholemeal loaf recipe would be greatly appreciated! With modern measurments, instructions, and brand names of yeast etc if possible.

Also - if anyone has any wheat/gluten free bread recipes, they'd also be very welcome indeed.

Thanks in advance!

I have tried this following recipe, tried and true and the result was very beautiful. Ff you follow the url, there was a picture of the step-by-step instruction, but i mistakenly deleted it from Flickr.com–> but you can see the picture here http://www.flickr.com/photos/indorecipe/sets/72157600068068176/

Never Fail White Bread

* 5 - 6 cups bread flour
* 1 heaping tbsp active dry yeast + 1 scant tbsp active dry yeast
* 2 cups lukewarm water
* 1 tsp salt
* 4 heaping tbsps vegetable oil
* 8 tbsps sugar

- Dissolve yeast in lukewarm water, let stand until foamy. Meanwhile in a separate bowl, mix sugar and bread flour well.

- When water mixture already foamy, mix in salt and oil, mix well. Mix in flour one cup at a time.

- Knead dough on a floured surface. Place in an oil greased bowl, turn dough to coat. Cover with damp towel, place in a warm place for an hour or until doubled in size. Punch down dough.

- Divide in half. Knead each for a bit and shape to loaves, place in loaf pans, let rest for another half hour. Loaves will rise in size again.

- Bake at 350 F for 30 minutes.

* you can also dissolve the sugar in the lukewarm water before dissolving the yeast, either way is fine. If you don't have bread flour, mix half wheat flour and half all purpose flour, this would work as well.