gluten free fruit bread recipe

An easy, delicious rice bread recipe - a nice change from boring old bread

Gluten free fruit bread recipe

Ingredients

• 3 tablespoons vegetable oil (I use olive oil)
• 1 teaspoon cider vinegar
• 3 large eggs, beaten
• 1 1/2 cups water
• 1 tablespoon sugar OR molasses OR honey
• 2 teaspoons quick-acting dry yeast
• 1 cup cooked mashed or riced potato
• 3 cups brown rice flour
• 1 cup quick oats (small oat flakes or unflavored oatmeal flakes)
• 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 cup seedless raisins
• 3/4 cup candied fruit OR chopped dried fruits such as apricots, dates, cranberries or pineapple
• 2 teaspoons guar gum
• 1 teaspoon salt

Directions

1. Place the ingredients in the order listed above into your bread machine pan.


2. Set the bread machine to darkest bake with one rising only. (In my current bread machine, I use the dark setting and the 2 pound weight buttons, and that gives me a setting of 5 and a completion time of 3 hours and 40 minutes.)


3. When the machine has started mixing, take a rubber spatula and clean off the sides of the baking pan into the rest of the dough. (Because there's no gluten in rice flour bread, the dough doesn't look like regular bread dough.)


4. When it's done baking, remove the loaf from the bread pan as soon as possible onto a wire rack to cool.

Notes for this gluten free fruit bread recipe

	If you want a more wheat-like bread, replace 1/2 cup of the rice flour with 1/4 cup each potato and tapioca starch. (Starches are less healthy and won't help you with weight loss.)I use generally brown rice flour because it's easy to find in the stores. You can use a mix of flours such as almond flour, soy flour and others, as long as you keep the 3 cup total. I find I don't like too much of one kind of flour (other than brown rice flour).
	Do not use any gluten free bread recipe with eggs (like this one) on a delayed timer.
	All ingredients should be at room temperature. Some bread machines warm up the ingredients for 15 minutes or so before mixing - this is okay.
	The bread dough in the bread machine pan looks more like cake batter when mixing - this is right.If it's lumpy, add a little more water at the beginning of the cycle when you're pushing the dough down the sides of the bread pan. If it has a hollow in the middle, it means you have too much water. Reduce it next time.
	I find that rice flour is sensitive to humidity, and you may have to experiment to find out what works best in your area.Where I live, in winter I need to use almost 2 cups of water because the atmosphere is dry. In the summer, the humidity is higher and I have to reduce the amount of water. You'll get to know your bread machine and your local humidity conditions. Just make small adjustments.
	If you don't use your bread up quickly, there are a couple of things to do. Slice the bread, then freeze it with pieces of parchment paper between each slice. Be aware - wheat free bread can be fragile when it comes out of the freezer.It thaws out fairly crumbly and needs to be toasted to hold together.