Oh No I need a lunch - GF Sandwich Bread

I don't know what I was thinking. I have to make the kids lunches and I had nothing to put in them. My son left his lunch box at school so "ice packed" items were out of the question. So I decided to try a new recipe for some GF bread. I think this loaf cost about $3.50 to make. A far cry from the almost $6 my other options are. Some are even more! This was so easy too.

Easy Gluten Free Sandwich Bread




Dry Ingredients
2 1/2 cups Organic Brown Rice Flour
2/3 cup non-GMO cornstarch
1 Tablespoon xanthan gum
1 teaspoon Celtic Sea salt

Wet Ingredients
1 1/2 cups milk (warm not hot)
1 packet active dry yeast
2 Tablespoons Organic Virgin Coconut Oil (or vegetable oil)
2 large free range eggs

1. In a small bowl, combine milk and yeast.
2. Place all dry ingredients in a mixer bowl and wisk through to mix together.
3. Add yeast mixture, coconut oil and eggs.
4. Using an electric mixer, mix dough for 2 mins on medium.
5. Lightly grease a 9x5-inch loaf pan with butter.
6. Spread batter evenly into the pan.
7. Cover pan with greased saran wrap.
8. Allow dough to rise for 1 hour in a warm place.
9. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
10. Bake dough for 50 minutes.
11. Remove bread from oven and allow it to cool in the pan for 5 minutes.
12. Ater five minutes, turn bread out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
Makes one 9x5 loaf

**Note: You will see in my photo there are blocks of butter on the dough. I did this to add flavor. I cut a small slit in the risen dough and plopped them on top. Yummy!

Now to make some lunches for my kids. Crossing my fingers that this bread goes over with them.

To your health - Naturally

Stephanie

Gluten Free Day 1

Friday we took our son in for blood tests for Celiac. Saturday I went through my house and cleaned out every product that had gluten in it. They are packed up in 3 grocery bags to take to my friend who has three kids.

There have been a few tears today as they realized what was being eliminated. But it will be fine. I have gotten pretty good at baking the "replacements". The mainstay being chocolate chip cookies. I picked up some kinnikinnick brand K-Too's so they will think they are getting Oreo's.

It was a calm day in our house. No screaming, fighting or running around. Is this a fluke or related? It normally takes 2 weeks to "detox" them from the overload. It dawned on me that this is the first day since they were very small babies that they have been totally without gluten. There is something wrong with that. Cleaning out my cupboards made me realize just how much they were getting.

Onward to a new adventure.

Assembling the Flour Mixture

I decided to mix up a batch of the flour mixture today. I tried using one of my Tupperware cereal containers and it worked quite well. I could put all my flour in it and then shake it to mix them together. It will also work to put it into the freezer to store.

I also wanted to figure out how much this mixture cost to make. I

used 2 bags of Bob's Red Mill White Rice Flour + 1 Cup, 1 Cup of Ener G Potato Starch and 1 Cup of Tapioca Flour / Starch from my local health food store. The total was about $11.50 for a little over 4 lbs of flour mixture (11 cups).

Off to do more baking..........

To your health!