Sunday Bread

This is my proudest baking accomplishment so far - An easy gluten-free loaf of bread! It's moist, dense, and has great flavor! Im so pleased. The only annoying ingredients are the gluten-free flour blend which you can find at Loblaws or other large supermarkets, and xanthan gum which you have to buy at a health food store or specialty food store. It is pretty much impossible to make a proper bread loaf without xanthan gum or guar gum as they allow for proper texture and rising.

Here we go:

3 cups all purpose gluten-free blend

1/3 cup sugar

1 tablespoon instant yeast

2 teaspoons xanthan gum

2 teaspoons salt

6 egg yolks

1/3 cup light olive oil

1 3/4 cups sparkling mineral water

1) Grease a bread loaf pan with butter.

2) Combine dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl. Use a large whisk to thoroughly blend.

3) Lightly whisk egg yokes. Add olive oil to yolks and add to dry ingredients. Stir until coarsely combined.

4) Slowly add carbonated water to the bowl and mix until blended.

5) Using an electric hand or stand mixer, beat bread batter on high for 3 minutes. Scrape batter down with a spatula and cover bowl with plastic wrap.

6) Place in a warm location to rise (my bread took 2.5 hours to rise – I don’t thinks that this is normal – but it turned out amazing.

7) Pour into prepared loaf pan and even top with a spatula (dip spatula in water so it wont stick.

8) Set the loaf pan, uncovered in a warm, draft-free location to rise.

9) Preheat oven to 325 degrees.

10) When batter is about 1 inch above the top rim of the bread pan place it in preheated oven.

11) Bake bread for 50 minutes or until light brown on-top.

12) Remove bread from loaf pan and cool on a rack before slicing.

It is a great day - I can throw away the frozen Ezekiel bread!