Gluten free bread is one of the gluten free things that I have dreaded making. I did not want to tackle it. I have had so many gluten free failures that I knew gluten free bread was sure to give me trouble, but my family misses bread, so I knew I needed to try.
I started out buying a loaf of store bought bread once in a while, but honestly, that was really hard. Not only am I eating gluten free my daughter is also eating gluten free (she is doing amazingly better, more on that in another post). My daughter especially finds it hard to have bread and other gluten products around. Because of this my husband and I have decided to make the house almost completely gluten free, therefore, bread free.
We have a few things and some breakfast cereal and that is about all the gluten that is in the house. The trouble with this is the rest of the family misses things like bread. Overall, they have been really good about the new diet, but I know they miss bread.
I also did not realize how much I used bread as a filler item. Not quite enough soup for dinner, serve bread. Pasta for dinner, than of course you need bread. In a hurry and no time for lunch, just quickly make sandwiches. I really did not realize how much bread we ate until we no longer had it.
So, I decided to tackle gluten free bread in my bread machine. Last month I posted about the bread machine I bought on sale at Macy’s usingEbates. I have now used it quite a bit and I love it. It has made gluten free bread easy.
This bread even slices well for sandwiches. My kids were so excited to have sandwiches again and so was I. I did not know I would enjoy a sandwich so much, but after almost 3 months without sandwiches, it was nice to have one again.
I will say that this is not the healthiest bread, but we are not eating this all the time. I hope to tweak it and try adding some healthier gluten free flours, but I really think it might change it too much. So, for now we are eating and enjoying this gluten free sandwich bread.
Gluten Free Bread Machine Bread
- 3 eggs
- 1 tsp. Cider Vinegar
- 1/4 cup Canola Oil
- 1-1/2 cups Water
- 2 cups White Rice Flour
- 1/2 cup Potato Starch
- 1/2 cup Tapioca Flour
- 1/3 cup Cornstarch
- 1 Tbsp. Xanthan Gum
- 3 Tbsp. Sugar
- 1-1/2 tsp. Salt ( I used 1 tsp and it was fine)
- 2/3 cup Milk Powder (Non-Fat Dry)
- 2-1/4 tsp. Yeast, Active Dry
Combine liquid ingredients and pour carefully into bread machine baking pan. Mix together dry ingredients and add to baking pan. Carefully place pan in the bread machine. Select normal/white cycle and start machine. ( I use the gluten free setting on my bread machine). Remove pan from the machine when bake cycle is complete. Remove bread from pan. Cool upright on a rack before slicing.
Adapted from Bob’s Red Mill.
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I love to cook and bake, and it is a good thing, because my family loves to eat. I live with my husband and three kids on 43 acres in Northeastern Oklahoma. Between homeschooling, helping in my husband’s dental office, working on our property, taking care of three dogs, and raising hogs as a side job/hobby, I am constantly on the go like most of you.
I am so happy your posted this, I am missing toast so badly in the mornings. So this will be a treat. Thanks for sharing, it looks delicious.
@Jenna @ Newlyweds, I wanted to let you know that there was an error in my GF bread machine bread recipe. It is fixed now, but it should have eggs in it. I wanted to make sure you knew in case you were going to make.
@Lynn, Thanks Lynn, I am going to make it this week, and I am going to mention this recipe in my Menu plan for the week. I am so excited to try it!
It looks AMAZING! So wonderful girl! The only thing I’d have to sub is the milk powder. I’ll have to give some thought about what I could use instead.
Way to go!
@Org Junkie, Thank you! It would be so hard to be both gluten and milk free. It might work without the milk. Could you use a milk alternative in it, in place of the liquid? I am not sure if that would work or not, but it might be worth trying.
Did you find a replacement for the dry milk powder? Just curious as we are dairy and gluten free. Thanks!
im always on a Gluten Free diet. i really hate my allergy to gluten because i love the taste of wheat bread. oh well, you just got to live with it.
Lynn! Bread is definitely not an easy thing, but you’ve done it beautifully!
Hi Lynn,
Just came to your blog from Amy’s Slightly Indulgent Tuesdays. You have a beautiful blog, I’ll definitely be back!
The bread looks great; I’ve made one loaf of bread in my machine but it didn’t turn out all that great. Yours looks really good though, so I’m going to give it a try! Thanks for posting it
~Aubree Cherie
I’ve switched over to gluten free bread also. Your bread came out looking amazingly ‘regular’ – meaning it doesn’t look gluten free (if that makes any sense).
I’ve found a gluten free bread mix that I throw in my bread machine that my while family loves – even my 11 year old son. Have you tried Pamelas Products? She’s got a great gluten free mix. It runs about $5/loaf, but cheaper than buying in a store. You can find it online at Amazons or in a health food store. It also has no eggs if anyone else is like me and allergic to eggs.
I’ll have to give your recipe a try if I can find something to substitute the eggs with. Thanks!
@Jenn, I have not tried the Pamela Products but I have heard that they are really good.
Wow, that bread looks great.
I will have to try it.
I have not tried to tackle making home made gluten-free bread yet.
The only ones I have tried are a couple of Bob’s Redmill mixes, one was really good and the other one was not. LOL. Trial and error.
Have a wonderful New Year.
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I’m allergic to corn – is there a subsititute for the corn starch?
I have not tried it in this recipe, but often times tapioca starch will work in place of cornstarch. I would try that.
I just made this, as written. Turns out a beautiful, pretty and delicious loaf. it’s very heavy, but utterly fantastic.
My bread machine is 15 years old, with no gluten free setting. I searched for quite a while for a recipe that would work without a gf setting, as well as not having to mix the ingredients ahead of time or constantly adjust the settings on the machine in order to get the bread to come out well.
The initial upstart cost is a little steep (perhaps I could have found the ingredients online cheaper) but considering a loaf of gf bread at the store is very expensive and not very tasty, totally worth it. I have enough ingredients to make another dozen loaves, except for the rice flour, but I intend to use my Vitamix to grind my own brown rice into usable flour.
I am so glad it worked for you. I love this recipe too and agree, it is still not inexpensive to make, but tastes so much better.
I actually did a little online research and most of the ingredients can be found cheaper, if not in bulk online. I will be looking more into that as I get closer to needing more.
Any idea on how to make this dairy free? We found out we have to go dairy free and gluten free!
Would love to try this if I could figure out how to replace the milk powder!
I have not tried it milk free sorry. I think the dairy helps the texture in this though so I am not sure how it would turn out without it. Sorry about the dairy free. Gluten free is challenging enough, adding dairy free to it would be really hard.
I have almost the same recipe but use non-dairy creamer for the dried milk. That may help the non-dairy folks. I find the bread to be very dense and needs to be cut thin to avoid overpowering the other flavors in the sandwiches we make. We are working toward being a gluten free house. One of four children is gluten intolerant, another has been taken off gluten to see if some attention/behavioral issues can be helped. I’ve tweaked the recipe a bit. Partly for experimental purposes partly for practical purposes. I’ve got it at 1c brown rice flour, 1c garbanzo bean flour, 1.5c almond flour. I’ve upped the salt to 2tsp but I will likely reduce it back to 1.5tsp. I wish there was a way to make the bread come out of the machine a bit less dense but I’m thankful for what we can make on our own. ‘nuts.com’ and ‘vitacost.com’ are a couple of websites you can get good deals on bulk flour. ‘amazon.com’ is good also.
I am glad to know that non dairy creamer works for dried milk. I get asked that a lot, so thanks for the information.
Trying the recipe for the first time tonight. I loved that your recipe called for ingredients that I already had in my fridge or pantry and nothing off the wall to the learned GF cook. I bought a second hand bread machine weeks ago and had to psyche myself up to dealing with the machine. UGH – nerves, LOL!