Beer Bread Door Stop and Lectins

I've been slacking on here but it's for a good reason!  My granddaughter!  Sweet little baby!

I made a beer bread today that I have made before.  Of course you can't really use beer, but I do use sorghum beer.  The taste is not nearly as yeasty, the way I like it, but it's a good substitute.  

The recipe calls for white rice flour.  Two cups.  I only had one cup so I subbed brown rice flour for the second cup.  Yeah, not a good idea.  

I guess you have to make mistakes in order to learn but this stuff is expensive!  Damn!  The bread cooked forever and is still dense.  Cut and toasted it's not too bad.  It could be mistaken for a doorstop though.  Sigh.

I've been reading some stuff about lectins.  Rather than attempt to explain on here I will give a couple links at the end of the post.  Basically everything is bad for you except for meat, fruit and veggies.  No nuts, legumes, grain of any sort, blah blah blah.  There are supplements that are supposed to help so I will go ahead and order some, take them, and report back after a couple of months.  We shall see.  By taking these supplements your body is able to get the lectins out. I know, sounds all Scientology or something, but after doing some online research I see that there is a lot of validity to this.  Actual scientific validity.  It will be worth my money if it works, if not, well we've spent a lot more on more worthless stuff.

Lowdown on Lectins


Lectins, a little known troublemaker

Don't let lectins Ruin your Digestive health
 

Gluten Free Beer Bread

Dinner tonight was beer bread and cream of mushroom soup.  Yummy!  When I was baking with wheat flour we had this fantastic beer bread recipe that we used quite often.  It was easy and good!  Of course regular beer is a no-no since it has gluten and of course bread must be made gluten free.  Today hubby and I bought some sorghum beer (sorghum is gluten free) called New Grist.  As a beer, it's simply just OK but in beer bread it was pretty darned good!  I saw many different recipes for the beer bread, some with yeast added some without and some that were savory.  Our beer bread is SWEET (ok somewhat sweet) and yummy with nothing else added.  Here is the original beer bread recipe: Beer Bread

I wanted a beer bread that was similar to this one.  Here's the recipe that I came up with using various parts of other recipes:

Beer Bread

1 cup Betty Hagman's GF bread mix
1 cup white rice flour
2/3 cup potato starch
1/3 cup tapioca flour
1 tablespoon xanthan gum
4 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 egg
3 tablespoons melted butter
12 oz. sorghum beer, I used New Grist

Mix together all the dry ingredients and whisk.  Melt the butter and add the egg.  Stir together.  Add the butter mixture to the flour and then add the beer.  The beer will foam up so make sure that your bowl is large enough.  Mix together until the beer stops foaming.  

Prepare a loaf pan my greasing and the flouring with tapioca flour.  Bake in a 375 degree oven for about 50 minutes.  The bread will be a nice light brown.