Baking Bread

[sickchick]

Ok I love to bake, but I have always baked desserts, pastries, cookies, candies, etc, and I am pretty fearless about it.

Bread however, living in Seattle we always had a "Great Harvest" at any of the neighbohoods I have lived in.

So now I have some ideas... and questions because I am not sure what does what in recipes. Gimme a week and I will be more confident.

The recipe I was itching to try was from my book The Wheat Free Cook (Jacqueline Mallorica) and it calls for yogurt. It's a quick bread recipe, there is no yeast in it. And it's a 'Hearth- Style' rustic with seeds on it.

I can't have vinegar... I can't have dairy... I am assuming it's to react somehow with baking soda or baking powder?

You think I could substitute with citric acid powder?

lovelove

sickchick

[RiceGuy]

If the recipe calls for dairy, that would be the reason to include baking soda. The soda neutralizes the acid in the dairy, so the baking powder doesn't fizzle out before you get the dough in the oven. Therefore, if you omit dairy and other acidic ingredients, you should be able to omit the baking soda.

If it where me, I'd probably just use a little unsweetened apple sauce in place of the yogurt, and however much extra water it takes to get the right consistency for the dough.

Use Bob's Red Mill baking powder, and it should be just fine. From all my experience, Rumford's doesn't work in gluten-free breads.

[missy'smom]

The addition of yogurt or buttermilk produces a moist tender product. I have been using plain soy yogurt(Whole Soy and Co.) as a CF sub. for yogurt or buttermilk. If the original recipe called for buttermilk then I add a just little water to thin the yogurt just a bit to make it the consistancy of buttermilk. IMHO the best baked goods recipes often have buttermilk or yogurt in them.

If you don't use soy yogurt then you will need to sub with something of a similar thickness and moisture content, like the applesauce that RiceGuy suggested, or some other puree.

[sickchick]

Fantastic you two... I truly truly appreciate it

Off to the store~ got some bread to bake!