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gluten-free-mike
Joined: 07 Sep 2006 Posts: 349 Location: Cleveland, OH
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Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 9:46 pm Post subject: New Artisan-Style Multi-Grain GF Bread Recipe |
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My wife has created a wonderful gluten-free Artisan-Style Multi-Grain Bread.
That is the link to the PDF of the recipe and a color picture of the final product.
This is soda-bread type recipe that uses Flax, Quinoa flour, Sorghum, and Rice Flours, coupled with caraway seed (like rye bread uses for flavor) to achieve a wonderful flavor balance. It is simple to make and is baked in a round 2-quart Pyrex (oven safe) glass dish. The bread is finally topped with sesame seeds and poppy seeds for even more flavor and visual appeal.
It does use eggs and dairy products: sorry to any who can't consume those.
We taste-tested it on a few non-GF persons and it went over very well. Hope everyone likes it. _________________ Mike
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The Edifying Conscience
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Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 10:12 pm Post subject: |
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Hey Mike,
I love that your posting your recipes. Is there anyway you can copy and paste them in the threads?
Thanks,
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gluten-free-mike
Joined: 07 Sep 2006 Posts: 349 Location: Cleveland, OH
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Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 10:29 pm Post subject: |
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| TEC wrote: | Hey Mike,
I love that your posting your recipes. Is there anyway you can copy and paste them in the threads?
Thanks,
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Tec,
I could *try* to post them in threads, but the one thing that I think I will lose is any sort of formatting. Especially odd-ball fractions (like 1/3) may come out weird looking since those are custom-kerned in the publishing tool I use. I also think line breaks are going to be amiss, as are the direction-step numbers (not that numbers are too important).
If the PDF reader lets you just highlight/copy the text, you can paste it into the thread - fine by me. If not, let me know and I will *try* tomorrow. Not sure what the results will be like, but I can try.
I'll check in here tomorrow.
Mike _________________ Mike
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mrsppmrxky

Joined: 09 Oct 2004 Posts: 1453 Location: GF Kitchen
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Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 10:51 pm Post subject: |
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Is there a reason that it has to be in a 2qt round dish or is that just for looks?
Do you think you could make mini loaves so that you could have
hors devores mini sandwiches?
*rant on: I do not like PDF formats! It takes over my computer while it takes forever to open.....rant off*.........I guess I need to be more patient. LOL _________________
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Fidissimus

Joined: 17 Mar 2006 Posts: 1463 Location: Portland, OR.
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Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 1:16 am Post subject: |
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There's Xanthan gum in that recipe!
....awwww, I'm so proud of you guys! Though I'm sure it would've been just as good without. (teehee) I'll have to give it a try - it looks really good. _________________ Cheers!
Jenn
GF BD: Feb. 2001
Free of wheat, barley, rye, oats, rice, dairy, eggs, almonds, pineapple and brewers yeast.
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gluten-free-mike
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Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 8:23 am Post subject: |
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| Fidissimus wrote: |
There's Xanthan gum in that recipe!
....awwww, I'm so proud of you guys! Though I'm sure it would've been just as good without. (teehee) I'll have to give it a try - it looks really good. |
Yes, this final version did use some Xanthan Gum to obtain optimal bread texture. We have created many cakes, cookies, tortes, and other gluten free recipes (even dessert-type sweeter breads) without ever needing the gums, but this particular recipe did benefit from the xanthan. So, I guess there is a time an place to admit that some recipes do benefit from the use of added gums: I admit it as I finally have proof with this particular bread.  _________________ Mike
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gluten-free-mike
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Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 8:29 am Post subject: |
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| mrsppmrxky wrote: | Is there a reason that it has to be in a 2qt round dish or is that just for looks?
Do you think you could make mini loaves so that you could have
hors devores mini sandwiches?
*rant on: I do not like PDF formats! It takes over my computer while it takes forever to open.....rant off*.........I guess I need to be more patient. LOL |
Round or not: Well, we were trying to get a boule (French, meaning ball or round) type loaf for this one. I *presume* it'd work in regular or mini-loaf pans, since I can't see why not, though we have not tried that yet. If you do, let me know how it goes.
PDF: Sorry. The tool I am using to format these things has that as the only native-output that I can easily export. As I mentioned earlier, I will *try* to make a text-version available soon to avoid download times. I have the luxury of a cable-modem, and the download is instant; I will try to account for others that do not. _________________ Mike
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mrsppmrxky

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Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 8:59 am Post subject: |
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Thanks Mike. A lady in our support group has been looking for a substitute for the more hearty tasting breads. She doesn't like plain sandwich bread. I will be sure to pass it on to her. _________________
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gluten-free-mike
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Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 10:05 am Post subject: |
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OK, here's an attempt at a TEXT-ONLY version of the recipe for anyone that does not want to get the beautfully formatted PDF version of the recipe that I provided earlier.
Overview
A hearty bread with a satisfying, and not overpowering, flavor of multiple grains and the taste of caraway seeds throughout.
This is soda-bread type recipe that uses Flax, Quinoa flour, Sorghum, and Rice Flours, coupled with caraway seed (like rye bread uses for flavor) to achieve a wonderful flavor balance. It is simple to make and is baked in a round 2-quart Pyrex (oven safe) glass dish. The bread is finally topped with sesame seeds and poppy seeds for even more flavor and visual appeal.
Ingredients
1/3 Cup Cold Water
½ Cup Vegetable Oil (such as Canola)
2 Eggs, Slightly Beaten (reserve 1Tablespoon for Egg-Wash)
¼ Cup Sugar
2 Teaspoons Baking Soda
1 Tablespoon Baking Powder
½ Teaspoon Salt
1 Tablespoon Caraway Seeds
½ Cup Quinoa Flour
½ Cup Sorghum Flour
½ Cup Glutinous Rice Flour
1½ Cups White Rice Flour
2 Teaspoons Xanthan Gum
¼ Cup Flaxseed Meal
1 Cup Buttermilk
¼ Cup Plain Yogurt
1 Teaspoon Sesame Seeds (Optional)
½ Teaspoon Poppy Seeds (Optional)
1 Teaspoon Milk (for Egg Wash)
Directions
Preheat oven to 350°.
Place water in a small bowl and put into freezer for 10 minutes.
In a large bowl, combine baking soda, baking powder, salt, caraway seeds, flours, Xanthan Gum, and flaxseed meal in large bowl. Mix dry ingredients together ensuring consistent distribution of ingredients; set aside.
Place vegetable oil into your electric mixer’s empty mixing bowl; add cold water from freezer. Mix with whisk attachment for 2 minutes. Add sugar and slightly beaten eggs (making sure to reserve 1 Tablespoon of egg – used later to create an egg wash for top of bread); mix.
Add buttermilk, yogurt, and the dry ingredients set aside earlier; mix to form your bread dough.
Place dough into greased 2-quart Pyrex casserole dish.
Create an egg-wash by combining reserved tablespoon of beaten egg and 1 teaspoon milk. Gently brush this on top of the bread dough (use all of the mixture). Sprinkle optional sesame and poppy seeds on top.
Bake for one hour. Have a wire rack ready for bread to cool on when done.
Once removed from oven, invert Pyrex dish over wire rack (bread should fall out onto rack). Allow to cool.
When done, it should look like this:
 _________________ Mike
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The Edifying Conscience
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Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 10:27 am Post subject: |
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Thanks Mike! I love the beautifully formatted recipe found in the thread. I'm thrilled you were able to paste it. The photo makes me hungry.
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mrsppmrxky

Joined: 09 Oct 2004 Posts: 1453 Location: GF Kitchen
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Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 11:43 am Post subject: |
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Thanks! _________________
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ostrich

Joined: 30 Mar 2006 Posts: 4059 Location: Nebraska
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Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 12:15 pm Post subject: |
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| gluten-free-mike wrote: | | PDF: Sorry. The tool I am using to format these things has that as the only native-output that I can easily export. As I mentioned earlier, I will *try* to make a text-version available soon to avoid download times. I have the luxury of a cable-modem, and the download is instant; I will try to account for others that do not. |
What tool are you using? There's ways to optimize PDFs so they don't come out so friggin huge.
On-topic: The bread looks great! I'm always interested in new bread recipes.  _________________ Ostrich :>--O==={
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gluten-free-mike
Joined: 07 Sep 2006 Posts: 349 Location: Cleveland, OH
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Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 1:26 pm Post subject: |
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| ostrich wrote: |
What tool are you using? There's ways to optimize PDFs so they don't come out so friggin huge.
On-topic: The bread looks great! I'm always interested in new bread recipes.  |
Glad you like the looks of the bread! It really is as good as it looks imho.
As for PDF tool -- trust me, I know how to optimize, etc. I am a software developer by nature. The main thing causing these particular PDFs to be large include: 1) font embedding, since I am using some not-so-common Postscript fonts, and 2) the color image I include. I have the publishing tool downsampling to 30dpi or something low like that. I could take it down a notch more, but the pictures start losing some of the desired clarity.
I also sorta thought 125K PDFs were "small" these days. Maybe I am spoiled with a 3Mb/sec+ downspeed cable-modem though. I love my cable modem - but that is another story.
From here on, I will try to always make a *text* version, as well as a pretty looking PDF, available so people can choose whatever they prefer. _________________ Mike
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ostrich

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Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 1:51 pm Post subject: |
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I'm on a cable modem too, but I know quite a few people still on dialup. Speaking as one who does websites for a living, text versions are always a good idea.
Personally, I'd up the quality of your pics a tad and downgrade the text. People eat with their eyes.  _________________ Ostrich :>--O==={
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gluten-free-mike
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Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 4:20 pm Post subject: |
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| ostrich wrote: | Personally, I'd up the quality of your pics a tad and downgrade the text. People eat with their eyes.  |
I agree with you on this. I need to figure out how to do some quick font-substitutions so the tool doesn't feel the need to embed all that extra font info and keep file smaller.
I like pictures of food A LOT, since you sometimes can almost taste the finished food prior to cooking... which is why our bookshelves are full of cookbooks that are full color throughout, and why I took the same approach with my new book (color photos of every single recipe). I was hoping I was not the only one that appreciates pictures to accompany recipes. _________________ Mike
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