What is it about bread that is so scary? I have already posted recipes here on my blog for gluten free bread in the hopes that I can show you how easy it really can be. If you are still unsure then maybe a mix is more your cup of tea. My "Daily Bread Mix" contains all of the dry ingredients necessary for two loaves of bread. Here are the instructions from the back of the bag along with some pictures:
You will need:
3 eggs
1 ¼ cup milk or
water (heated to about 115oF)
¼ cup oil
1 teaspoon vinegar
Preheat oven to 170oF.
Place entire mix and yeast packet in mixing bowl.
Add eggs, warm milk (or water), oil, and vinegar to
mixing bowl.
Mix on low speed with paddle attachment just to
combine. Scrape bowl.
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Beat on medium speed for 3 minutes.
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| Notice how the texture looks much more smooth--almost like a cake batter. |
Grease two 8x4” bread pans. Divide batter evenly between the two pans.
Wet your hands and smooth out the top of the dough.
Turn oven off.
Place bread in oven and allow to rise for 40 minutes.
Remove bread from oven and preheat to 350oF.
Bake for 20-25 minutes or until top is a nice light brown
color.
Remove from pans and cool on wire rack completely before
cutting.
Yield: 2-8x4” loaves
You can also use this same mix to create rolls or hamburger buns. For rolls, scoop the dough into greased muffin tins and smooth the tops with wet hands. The muffin tins should be no more than half-full with dough--too much and they will escape all over (and yes, I do know this from experience)! ;o) For hamburger buns, grease 4-inch round cake pans and fill them half full of dough as well. Smooth out the tops like you did for the rolls or bread with wet hands. While the tops are wet you can sprinkle them with sesame seeds if desired. Allow to rise like the bread and bake. (You will need to adjust the baking time for rolls or buns--start with 10 minutes and check them for the rolls, the hamburger buns can be checked after about 15 minutes. Oven times vary quite a bit so yours may need a little longer or a little less time.) Here are pictures of my hamburger buns:
I'll add a picture of the finished product later....I was to eager to cut the last loaf I made and didn't get a picture of it first! ;o)
So Why the Name "Daily Bread"?
Bread is a part of our everyday lives--what is lunch without a sandwich, a spaghetti dinner without garlic bread, or the old standby for everyone--pizza on Friday night? Yet for those of us with celiac disease, gluten intolerance, or a wheat sensitivity, bread is taboo and seems completely out of reach. Wonderful tasting gluten free bread (and almost exactly like gluten-filled bread) is possible AND easy. More importantly though, God promises to provide for our needs. This is seen in Scripture as "providing for our daily bread."
God provided for the Israelites during their wandering in the desert. He supernaturally provided bread (manna) from heaven for them to eat.
"Then the Lord said to Moses, 'Behold, I am about to rain bread from heaven for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day....'" Exodus 16:4
"Yet He commanded the skies above and opened the doors of heaven, and He rained down on them manna to eat and gave them the grain of heaven. Man ate of the bread of angels; He sent them food in abundance." Psalm 78:23-25
If God can supernaturally provide bread from heaven for the Israelites, then He can certainly provide bread/food for us to eat today. I need to remember to trust Him for each of my daily needs--food, clothing or anything else and not worry.
"Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?" Matthew 6:25-27
Another thing that "daily bread" can remind us of is the fact that we need to be in God's Word, our true daily "food." It is only through God's Word that we can truly be sustained spiritually for the work of each day that the Lord has called us to do.
"...man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that come from the mouth of the Lord." Deuteronomy 8:3b
"How can a young man keep his way pure? by guarding it according to Your word. With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments! I have stored up Your word in my heart, that I might not sin against You." Psalm 119:9-11
So, as you eat your "daily bread" in whatever form that may be, remember to seek the Lord and the wisdom found in His Word each day as well.
God provided for the Israelites during their wandering in the desert. He supernaturally provided bread (manna) from heaven for them to eat.
"Then the Lord said to Moses, 'Behold, I am about to rain bread from heaven for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day....'" Exodus 16:4
"Yet He commanded the skies above and opened the doors of heaven, and He rained down on them manna to eat and gave them the grain of heaven. Man ate of the bread of angels; He sent them food in abundance." Psalm 78:23-25
If God can supernaturally provide bread from heaven for the Israelites, then He can certainly provide bread/food for us to eat today. I need to remember to trust Him for each of my daily needs--food, clothing or anything else and not worry.
"Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?" Matthew 6:25-27
Another thing that "daily bread" can remind us of is the fact that we need to be in God's Word, our true daily "food." It is only through God's Word that we can truly be sustained spiritually for the work of each day that the Lord has called us to do.
"...man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that come from the mouth of the Lord." Deuteronomy 8:3b
"How can a young man keep his way pure? by guarding it according to Your word. With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments! I have stored up Your word in my heart, that I might not sin against You." Psalm 119:9-11
So, as you eat your "daily bread" in whatever form that may be, remember to seek the Lord and the wisdom found in His Word each day as well.
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