Sunday, 24 November 2013

Gluten Free Baking- Large White Oven Loaf

Now term has started again, I'm living in a modest sized flat in Glasgow, with a very modest sized kitchen! Living at home over the summer, the kitchen I could use was rather large:-
This is the current kitchen in my flat:-
For this reason, it has been a lot more difficult to bake recently! Also, I don't have large amounts of space to store large amounts of flour. And my oven doesn't get very hot (175 degrees if your lucky). So I decided to bake my most consistently successful loaf. It doesn't taste particularly exciting, but the texture and fact it has always worked make it a good loaf. The main ingredient is glutafin select multipurpose white mix:

I get this on prescription and use it in a lot of recipes, and as my general flour for thickening sauces etc. It's worth pointing out that this mix contains wheat starch, which is not suitable people who are intolerant/ sensitive to wheat. The wheat starch is processed to remove the gluten, so of course it's still gluten free. It's also only available on prescription, available to anyone medically diagnosed with Coeliac's disease. The recipe can be found here as can a lot of other recipes specifically designed for this flour. 

This is what the ingredients looked like:

The recipe is quite simple, first, mix up the dry ingredients:

Then, stir in the wet ingredients:

Put it into the loaf tin, this is what it looked like before around 20-25 minutes of rising:

And after rising:

I then baked it for about 35 minutes. It came out looking like this:

This is what it looked like cut, and a slice of it:


The loaf had a very nice texture, very fluffy, light and springy and had risen very well. A lot of shop bought gluten free loaves are very small, so it's nice to have something more normal bread sized to make sandwiches etc. The flavour was quite nice, but it didn't really taste of much. You could taste the olive oil, which was quite peppery and the dried milk as well, which is a bit odd. 






The best thing about this loaf is that it's easy and quick to make, and fills me up more than smaller loaves.

2 comments:

  1. This bread looks really tasty. A lot of gluten free bread looks very dry and as you said small. Yours doesn't. Is the loaf quite moist? I'm going to try making some of my own gluten free bread once I've finished. Have you ever tried one without yeast?

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    1. Yes, this one is quite moist, and doesn't crumble too much when you try to use it. I have tried to make on without yeast, it was a bit of a disaster. Even though my starter was quite active and bubbly it was a really dense dough and it never rose or cooked! :( It amazes me how people manage to create enough successful recipes to write a whole book!

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