Gluten Free Recipes: Learning To Bake Without Wheat Flour

A Reason To Cook With Gluten Free Recipes

Your doctor has just given you or a family member the news of having Celiac disease. It is the beginning of a journey down a new road and can be overwhelming at first. But, in order to allow the villi in the small intestine to heal and begin functioning normally, all gluten must be taken out of your or your family member’s way of eating. Does that mean you will never eat another sandwich again? No, it does not. You can bake bread using gluten free recipes.

Wheat Flour Substitutes

How is it possible to bake without wheat flour? Is it difficult? Is it expensive? These questions and more are likely going through your mind. Relax. Humankind has been using non-wheat flour for ages, certainly much longer than we have used wheat. You can use sorghum, tapioca, amaranth, bean, quinoa, corn, nut or soy flours. These are just a few of your options. You can also purchase commercially made flour substitutes.

A Recommended Flour Formulation

One suggestion for a flour substitute is using one cup of corn meal and one-and-a-half teaspoons of gelatin powder, as a thickener, for one cup of wheat flour. Or you can use 0.5 cups of finely ground nuts and 1 tablespoon of sweet rice flour per cup of wheat flour; you can even try white popcorn flour on a cup-for-cup exchange.

Be Aware Of Two Differences When Baking

There are some differences between baking bread with wheat flour and baking bread with non-wheat flour. You will need to add a dough enhancer to the non-wheat flour because there is no gluten. Commercial dough enhancers can be purchased, or you can use lemon juice or vinegar. Your non-wheat bread dough will only rise one time. If you punch it down, as you do with wheat flour breads, you will just have a lump of dough left in your bowl. It will not rise again. So, do not punch it down, just let it rise once and then bake.

Enjoy Baking Gluten Free

More gluten free recipes can be found online or in a variety of gluten-free recipe books. Once you begin using a non-wheat flour for your baked goods, you, your family and friends will enjoy the tasty goodness of a gluten-free goodies.

There are many different gluten free bread recipes that you are able to get. The gluten free recipes taste good and you will never be able to tell the difference. They are good for the health.