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R**2
Highly recommend, but a few notes
This book is an excellent compilation of gluten free bread machine baking recipes with very detailed instructions. You name it you can make it with this book. They also include their own white and whole grain flour blends. A few notes though: 1. The recipes give weighed and measured options for most ingredients. I found that they don’t match. For example, in the Simple Sandwich Bread recipe it calls for 360 grams or 3 cups of their flour blend. However, when weighing their flour blend (always best to weigh gluten free flour) I only needed the equivalent of 2 cups to get to 360 grams. Pictured above the bread on the left was baked using measurements (3 cups) and the bread on the right was weighed (360 grams). The bread on the left is much denser and difficult to chew through the day after (taste was very good fresh though:). The bread on the right stayed soft and tasty. 2. Weighed breads are a little too moist. I haven’t tried yet, but next I’m going to try cutting back on one egg white to see if that helps, rather than adding more dry ingredients. 3. The French bread recipe was very dense so I will need to work on tweaking that. 4. Their flour blend is good for fresh pizza dough but not good as a leftover.I also have the America’s Test Kitchen “How Can It Be Gluten Free” cookbook. They have a similar flour blend just different concentrations of all flours and starches (plus dry milk). I tried the sandwich bread recipe with it as well and tasted them side by side. Everyone immediately agreed that the ATK blend created a tastier loaf with similar consistency. Also, pizza dough made with ATK was still good when reheated the next day.I also tested the sandwich bread with Walmart’s Great Value Gluten Free All-Purpose Flour. First I noticed that weighing was the equivalent of 2.3 cups, and ultimately created a slightly denser loaf, but still tasty. I would use this if I found myself out any of the flours or starches needed to create the ATK blend and didn’t want to run to the store. I would just cut the amount down to an even 2 cups.I have many more to try, but am very happy with what I’ve created so far and expect to be equally happy with future recipes in this book.Happy gluten free baking!
C**N
Best gluten free book
I simply love this Book. So many great recipes and they taste great. I originally bought it because my mom is gluten free, and now actually have gotten in the habit of making loafs for myself.
A**S
Good stuff but neends a better layout
I wasn't expecting to love this recipe book as much as I did, but here I am. Great advice in the front, ways to fix bad bread, plenty of recipes, and it's all come out good, even with my various substitutions. The "light bread flour blend" in the front also makes some pretty great crepes and pie crust and brownies if you use it as an all-purpose blend. It even makes a super thick roux. I'm very satisfied.It's annoying if you're looking for a specific recipe though. You have to go to the glossary instead of the table of contents. The ToC only contains the "chapters" or types of bread instead of all the recipes. That means you'll have to resort to lots of bookmarks if you visit a recipe often. The glossary is very full of EVERYTHING (as glossaries are) so looking for a single thing is lengthy.There are no photos and it's all black and white so it's not a "flipping through to see what you wanna make" kind of recipe book. This is more of a "going in with a plan" kind of book. I'm fine with that for this book, but I normally prefer color photos in my recipe books so I can know what to expect with a recipe, since baking is basically alchemy and who knows what the hell it's gonna look like when you have all the raw components separate.The caramel bread and eggnog bread are goodly. Chocolate bread is dry. The plain white bread needs tweaking but is better than any other GF breadmaker recipe I have found online.tl:dr: You have a breadmaker and need gluten free bread recipes you should totally buy this. You won't regret the variety or advice.
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