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In the time that I’m not writing, lately I’ve been desperately trying to make a decent gluten-free bread. I’ve tried multiple recipes, and I just can’t get one to work for me! Baking bread at its best takes a hint of magic. It’s all about humidity and sea levels and the breath of an angel.
Anyway, not to bore you with the nitty gritty details of gluten-free baking, but it’s not the same. It’s like taking geletin, sugar, flavoring and wood pulp and asking you to make an approximation of an orange. Gluten-free bread is not actually bread.
Today, I decided to take another stab it it, though, and I finally made a delicious gluten-free bun! It’s light, fluffy and makes on heck of a peanut butter and banana sandwich.
So here are the ingredients, for those of you who might want to give it a whirl. This is a small batch of eight buns, since I was just trying it out:
1 cup rice flour
2 cups corn starch
2 tsp. yeast
2 tsp. guar gum
1 egg
2 cups water (Approximately)
2 tbsp. sugar
1 tsp. salt
1 very fervent prayer, and quite possibly the breath of an angel. 😉
It certainly looks light enough to be made with angels’ breath!
I know, right? That’s why I couldn’t quite discount the fervent prayer in my ingredient list. LOL!
I think I will try these (with tapioca starch)!
Let me know how they work out!
Yummy! Those look fantastic!
Thank you! They have my six-year-old’s vote of approval. 🙂
What is “guar gum”? Lots of restaurants in my area serve gluten-free pasta.
It’s a thickener/binding agent. It sort of takes the place of gluten… a little bit. It’s great that restaurants are making some gluten-free options!
Wow, those buns look delicious. Good on you for trying again and again until you found a recipe that worked. 😀
Thanks! If this one didn’t work, I was going to give up. I was pretty disheartened.