Today, I found my old bread machine which got lost when I moved a few months ago. I haven't used it since I went gluten-free and dairy-free several years back. I found a recipe without wheat or milk, and fired it up. Not only does it still work, the bread was so fantastic I had to share the recipe with you!
There's my old Cuisinart after a quick cleaning. The lid comes right off when you open it, but otherwise it's in good shape. It powered up just fine, so I gathered the ingredients.
This recipe makes a standard 1.5 pound loaf of white bread. I added the ingredients in the following order.
1 1/4 cups water at room temperature.
1/4 cup oil or soft margarine.
3 medium eggs. I am mostly vegan, but about a year ago started occasionally using eggs again. I only buy free range eggs (preferably from a local farm) that come from happy chickens. You can crack them right in, but I chose to scramble mine first.
1 1/4 teaspoon salt.
3 tablespoons sugar (or honey).
3 1/4 cups Bob's Red Mill 1:1 flour. This is a popular gluten-free blend available just about everywhere, but you can probably substitute other white flours.
2 teaspoons active dry yeast. I had instant dry yeast, which is versatile and can often be substituted for active yeast. It worked perfectly. Yeast formulated for bread machines would also likely be suitable.
Into the machine it went! I selected the gluten-free setting, and hit Start.
About 10 minutes later, it was stirring the ingredients, and some dry flour was stuck to the sides, so I used a spatula to push it off into the mixer.
This was about 20 minutes into the process.
About 40 minutes in, the dough was fully mixed, and the machine went still to allow it to rise.
About 90 minutes from the start, the dough had risen and taken the shape of a loaf. It began to bake!
The whole process took 2.5 hours, at which point I emptied the bread loaf out onto a cutting board to cool.
5 minutes later, I was slicing it up. Smelled amazing! I was relieved to see it turned out really well.
And the taste test? Perfect bread, better than I can get in stores. It was excellent with a bit of margarine, and made a delicious treat with some strawberry jam!
Recipe
To make it easy, here's the entire recipe in one spot.
1 1/4 cups water at room temperature
1/4 cup oil or soft margarine
3 medium eggs
1 1/4 teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons sugar (or honey)
3 1/4 cups Bob's Red Mill 1:1 gluten-free flour
2 teaspoons active (or instant) dry yeast
Add to the machine in that order, set for gluten-free loaf, press start.
After a few minutes of mixing, use a spatula to stir in dry flour from the sides.
It will take about 2.5 hours total, and creates a 1.5 pound loaf (about 12 slices).
The total cost was slightly less than what a similar loaf would be from the grocery store. It's a lot tastier, has better texture, and doesn't come with strange ingredients.
Optional: You can add nuts or seeds to the dough, or sprinkled on top while it is rising.
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Gosh, I wish we would develop teleport technology. We could make wonderful healthy food and teleport it to one another. A community of self-reliance spread out over everywhere.
Guess I am in a dreamy mood today, LOL.
Now you got me dreamin', too!
Distance seems to be one of the biggest barriers to self-reliance, strangely enough. Because self-reliance doesn't really mean you're a one man army, that needs nobody, and can alone produce every single thing he or she needs. A community, or at least extended trusted family/network, is so important. A teleporter would be a game changer! Even if couldn't teleport people. I'd make you a fresh loaf of bread and send it through for morning! In the summer, I'll have buckets of organic heirloom tomatoes of several different varieties.
A good point that people don't think enough about. (Self include)
That looks incredible! 🤤🤤🤤🤤
Last week, 4 insect species were cleared as 'food' by the European Parlament... Soon also to be in bread... 🤮🤮🤮 ...and now the funniest part: In vegetarian products! 🙈
We will start baking our own bread too soon! 🍞👍
In vegetarian products? For real? Vegetarians won't eat it.
Yes, for real... Absolutely sick!
Maybe it's healthier to eat insects than another type of animal product for protein supply haha. So far, I don't think it eats insects.
Insects are living beings... That is why I went veggie 🌱 5 years ago.. No insects for me... ;D
This is wonderful. I am on that path, my dear witness. I still eat things with a face, but there are already more days of the week without living beings. I learn a new vegan recipe every week this weekend.
That is good to hear my friend 🍀👍🏽😀♥️
It seems that baking bread at home is cheaper and healthier. Honestly, I saw a bread maker and it was recently. I didn't know they existed, lol.
The best thing is that we can use the ingredients we want, for the well-being of our health. I have read that the egg can be substituted for aquafaba, however, a happy chicken egg is much better than an egg from a penned hen and destined for mass egg production.
I hope that your health, and that of your entire family, is better every day.
Thanks Ray! Yes, there are various substitutions for eggs in certain recipes. I have used ground flax seed in certain baking for example.
It would be nice to read some of your other healthy recipes in a future post.
Nah, while looking the finished product, I craved for my mother's home made Bibingka it's totally different since this one is made of rice but the inside texture looks similar.
My mother and my aunt used to bake this during all saint's day.
Gotta love rice! I eat it at least once a day.
So easy! Almost makes me want to get a bread machine. I mostly eschew power tools of any kind in the kitchen. I'm an anachronism for sure.
Yeah, it's definitely not going to work if the power goes out! Then again, neither will my oven. I would either have to give up bread, go back to buying it exclusively from the store, or buy some kind of wood-burning stove and learn how to bake hand-mixed hand-kneaded bread on it.
One thing I like about the bread machine is that it doesn't heat up my house the way my oven does, so I can run it during the summer months. Can be put on when I go to bed, it runs in the cool of the night, and there is fresh bread in the morning.
But yeah, I do as much as I can by hand! Haven't used a blender to make cookies or anything like that in many years. Elbow grease!
You know, that heat business is really important in the summer months. hm...
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