| phi ( @ 2009-03-28 21:13:00 |
gluten free science experiment
I've been making bread in a bread-bot lately, and thought I'd go find a recipe for making gluten-free bread. The net was pretty unuseful for this, but I eventually interpolated a recipe, as follows:
0.5 c some kind of flour that has actual fiber in it, such as millet or flaxseed
1.75-2 c random other kinds of non-wheat flour, such as sorghum, potato, rice, tapioca, or corn
2 t xanthan gum
0.5 c dry milk powder
3 eggs
1.66 c water
3 T oil
1 t apple cider vinegar
2 T honey or agave
1.5 t yeast
... and then attempted to acquire any of the ingredients for this at the local supermarket. But the only gluten-free anything they had was a 1-lb box of pancake mix. So I bought that, and substituted it for the flours and xanthan gum. I probably should also have decreased the water and sweetener and/or increased the yeast, but on "rapid bake" it made a passable loaf of something that might have been bread and might have been cake, and went nicely with chili in any event.
Further experimentation is clearly necessary.
I've been making bread in a bread-bot lately, and thought I'd go find a recipe for making gluten-free bread. The net was pretty unuseful for this, but I eventually interpolated a recipe, as follows:
0.5 c some kind of flour that has actual fiber in it, such as millet or flaxseed
1.75-2 c random other kinds of non-wheat flour, such as sorghum, potato, rice, tapioca, or corn
2 t xanthan gum
0.5 c dry milk powder
3 eggs
1.66 c water
3 T oil
1 t apple cider vinegar
2 T honey or agave
1.5 t yeast
... and then attempted to acquire any of the ingredients for this at the local supermarket. But the only gluten-free anything they had was a 1-lb box of pancake mix. So I bought that, and substituted it for the flours and xanthan gum. I probably should also have decreased the water and sweetener and/or increased the yeast, but on "rapid bake" it made a passable loaf of something that might have been bread and might have been cake, and went nicely with chili in any event.
Further experimentation is clearly necessary.