More about flour

Been thinking and perusing this book.  Flour is not the evil, but I am amazed at just how pervasive wheat and gluten is.  It's in a lot of things you don't expect it to be in.  Such as red vines and twizzlers.  Really?  How come?  Oh well. 

But this book tells why flour is necessary in many bread/cakes and such.  I am enjoying the book and am looking forward to trying some of the breads.  Hopefully they don't totally suck!

Here are a couple of the recipes I am thinking of trying.

pecan cinnamon rolls
multi grain english muffins
soft pretzels
soft rolls
lean bread

Haven't even gotten to the cakes/cookies sections yet.

thoughts about flours

So. While reading the introduction to he CIA gluten free baking book, I find that I am going to be in need of several different 2 quart containers. I need to have 5 different types of flour/starch mixes. A little more than anticipated. I might finish reading the introduction then peruse the recipes and select 1 or 2 I need to try, then make those first and see if I want to continue. If I do, I might want to ask around and see if there is a bread baking class I can take that might help a girl out. Interesting research.

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Last night

So, last night, my sweetie and I went shopping for gluten free stuff...I got 2 baking cookbooks which I am going to read and see if I can bake my own bread.  "Free For All" by Jules E. Dowler Shepard is one of the books, looks impressive.  There is a cake on the front which looks awesome!  And the other one is "Gluten Free Baking with the Culinary Institute of America" By Richard J. Coppedge Jr.  Both have 150 recipes inside.  And before we did that, we had dinner at Taco Bell.  Where it is a little frustrating.  I can't eat the lovely taco meat from there, it has wheat in it.  And then we went to 99 Ranch Market, figuring I could get some of the supplies I need to make some gluten free french bread.  I have a recipe.  I have a french bread pan, which my hubby bought me.  I got tapioca starch, potato starch, sweet rice flour, glutenous rice flour.  I also got some millet, hulled.  And some sorghum.  But they need to be made into flour.  So I got an 8 inch mortar and pestle so I can do that.  I figured I could get what I wanted there.  Most of it I was.  I still want amaranth flour, though I could make my own.  I also want to get some almond flour.  I have plans to make some cinnamon rolls and some other bread type things.  And I want to make cookies again.

Wish me luck!