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      Title: Gluten-Free Breads I
 Categories: Bread, Info
      Yield: 6 servings
 
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  This is the intro section to Rice Breads, From Laurel's Kitchen Bread
  Book (for those of you who don't know, Laurel's Kitchen et al are
  vegetarian cookbooks -thus her reference to a diet not centered
  around meat...)
  
  RICE BREADS: "For those who cannot eat wheat, a whole-foods diet that
  is not centered around meat poses challenges. Of course there are
  many, many interesting grain dishes, especially when you look to the
  cuisines of the East.  But for a Western palate, nothing can quite
  take the place of bread, and nothing is so convenient or so
  comfortingly familiar-- sandwiches and toast, how could we get along
  without them? In this chapeter we offer a selection of breads and
  other good foods that will be useful to those who may be allergic to
  wheat, rye, oats, barley, and other grains, and to milk and eggs as
  well. The recipes presented here are good but they only suggest the
  wide range of possibilities.
  
  We recommend using short- or medium-grain brown rice.  Flour made from
  long-grain rice makes bread with a sandy texture.  You may run across
  something called "glutinous rice." Don't worry, there's no gluten in
  it: it just gets sticky when cooked, a quality required in certain
  recipes -- not, however, those in this book.  Plain ordinary short-
  or medium-grain brown rice is fine.
  
  Rice flour, like cornmeal, performs much better in every way when it
  is freshly ground; this is true even if your grinder, like ours,
  can't make it into a fine powder."
  
  NOTE:  After looking back through the book, they actually have a
  grinder that grinds their own flour.  If you can't find a source for
  brown rice flour, let me know and I will read further.  In general,
  for your purposes, if you have a KitchenAid, you would probably be
  able to use the Grain Mill attachment for that.  However, if you
  really want fresh flour, the Laurel's Kitchen Bread Book has lots of
  details on what kinds of grinders are available, and what to look for.
  
  Posted by Kyosho Connick. Reposted by Fred Peters.
  From: Frank Skelly                    Date: 02-14-95
 
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