The Need To Bake Gluten Free Recipes
Celiac disease is a condition in which nutrients are not absorbed properly because gluten in the diet damages the villi in the small intestine. The only way to stop the damage and allow the villi to repair themselves is to eliminate gluten from one’s diet and use gluten free recipes when cooking.
What To Use Instead Of Wheat
What can be used as a substitute for wheat flour? People around the world have been using non-wheat flours for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. There are many, many different options, but for starters there is corn flour, nut flours, potato flour, sweet potato flour, soy flour, quinoa (keen-wah) flour, sorghum flour, tapioca flour, amaranth flour and bean flour. Combinations of these flours when baking yields the best results. Commercial wheat flour replacement are also available.
A Recommended Flour Formulation
Mary Schluckebier, Home Economist, suggests using 1 cup of brown rice flour for 1 cup of wheat flour. Another recommendation of hers is to use 1 cup brown rice flour, 1/2 cup potato starch, 1/2 cup sweet rice flour and 1 tablespoon of unflavored gelatin. This is particular good for baking bread.
Differences Do Exist
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.
More Gluten-Free Cooking
Although it may take a bit to adjust to using gluten free recipes, you may find that you enjoy breads and other baked goods made with flour replacements even more than you used to enjoy baking with wheat.
There are many different gluten free bread recipes that you are able to get. The gluten free recipes are tasty and you are never going to tell the difference. They are healthy for you.
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