Any bread experts out there?

mardatha

I need some adice re bread please ... I want to cut out wheat from our diets for a time to see if it helps us. I want to make bread but unsure of the many different kinds of flour and grains that you can buy. Has anybody got a favourite nice good-tasting bread that is not made with wheat and is not flat and tough as a frisbee?

NewShadow

Do you want to go wheat free or gluten free?

GreyQueen

mardatha wrote: »

I need some adice re bread please ... I want to cut out wheat from our diets for a time to see if it helps us. I want to make bread but unsure of the many different kinds of flour and grains that you can buy. Has anybody got a favourite nice good-tasting bread that is not made with wheat and is not flat and tough as a frisbee?

Funnily enough, I've been baking bread this morning, from the wheat flour I want to use up ahead of going wheat-free.

Mar, it's the gluten in the wheat which makes it un-frisbee like and soft - it makes the bread rise and be slightly moist. I don't think you can find a viable alternative which will perform the same way and give you a conventional loaf. There are breads from many parts of the world, a bit of googling should reveal plenty of recipes, but they will lean towards the flattish and toughish side of the spectrum.

You can bake with other grains than wheat, but they will contain gluten in various amounts so, as NewShadow has posted above, you need to know what you want to achieve, wheat-free or gluten-free.

mardatha

We want to cut out wheat, have tried GF and it didnt make any difference.

BrassicWoman

have a look at the recipes on the dove farms website. Lots of options there.

Sassia

Second Doves website suggestion. We use spelt flour from there which may be just different enough from common wheat to suit you. It has some gluten in so isn't like a frisbee,

mardatha

Will go and look at it now, thanks!