Customer Reviews
A real confidence booster - By: R. Wilson, 24 Nov 2008 
Confession: I've only tried the first recipe - for basic bread.
But it's SO good I don't want to venture further just yet!
I've had hits & misses before with my Panasonic breadmaker & gluten-free bread flour, so I decided to try this book.
The first thing is that the recipes do NOT use *bread* flour - instead they use gluten-free flour to which you add xanthum gum (which is easy to buy, eg Tesco's). Maybe this is what makes the difference, or maybe I'm just being more careful with measuring. Probably it's both.
Anyway the net result is that the bread really is good. I'm sufficiently encouraged now to attempt some of the other recipes soon.
Brilliant book! - By: Meropi, 06 Aug 2008 This book is excellent. The recipes really work & are nothing like the dry dreadful bread foundin health shops. I very often make the muesli loaf & it works out every time - guaranteed! I highly recommend this book!
Buy this - if only for the focaccia recipe - By: Ms. Dj Woodhall-james, 28 May 2007 
I bought this book as a companion for the Panasonic SD253 Breadmaker, which it lists as a suitable breadmaker for the recipiesin the book, I have now been using it ( & the breadmaker) for about a month. The recipe for the bread mix I have found one of the most useful things,it gives a flour mix that is stable & well behaved, holds a good rise & -most importantly, makes bread that tastes like bread, & not some weird experimentin a chemical lab, which is what most commercial bred tastes like! I started off with the basic everyday white bread mix, which worked well, gave a good, well flavoured loaf, which lasted well, & was moist enough to toast when it went a bit stale. The milk loaf recipie just doesn't work, I think there must be a typo for the ammount of liquidin the mix, I ended up with a craggy bowling ball, not a loaf of bread & had to bin it & start again. The pain de chocolat sounded wonderfull, & are one of the things my partner misses most since being diagnosed gluten free, they took forever, & i'm sorry, but there are things that gluten free flour just will not do, & making puff pastry is one it was a big disapointment. The one thing that I did find worked superbly well was the focaccia bread. If you buy this book, just try this one, i promise you it will become a staple. it works well as a whole loaf on a baking tray, or split into four & made into four rolls on a yorkshire pudding tray, it freezes well,reheats well, & toasts well when a bit stale. The bread tastes & smells wonderful, & uing the pizza dough programme on the machine, makes really fast fresh bread - 15 mins to knead, 45 mins to provein a fan oven at 50C & 15 mins to bake at 190C. Try it, you won't regret it.
There are still lots of things I haven't triedin the book, & I look forward to doing so, but it is important not to follow the recipies blindly, you need to have a basic understanding of baking, & if a recipe looks like it shouldn't work, it probably won't. Allin all, not the Holy Grail of gluten free baking, but a good attempt at it, & one writtenin a non prescriptive, friendly acessible everyday style.
Good and bad - By: C. Saunders, 11 Mar 2007 
I was dianosed as a Coeliac very recently & having tried the store bought stuff I thought I'd try my own. I got the breadmaker (panasonic SD253) and, based on the reviews for this book, bought it.
I've had very mixed results. Some may think it's because of my novice bread-making skills, but I had my mother try some of the recipes I did & she got similar results (with a great deal of both machine & handmade bread making).
The milk loaf is a disaster, don't bother. The sandwich loaf is okay but I'm not keen on the taste of rice flour. I've just tried the everyday loaf & found the dough is really too dry (though I admit it tastes great).
In general I'm not hugely impressed with the recipes as is, but the basic idea is good & I think I'll be able to modify these recipes to my own taste.
Great bread & cakes! - By: Mildwin, 16 Feb 2007 I bought this book after being diagnosed with a wheat intolerance & being unable to find good wheat free breadin stores. I managed to get all the flours needed from my local supermarket but was quite expensive when you compare to wheat/gluten flours. But the results were very good. Especially the blueberry muffins, they are lovely!
I would recommend this book to all those who are wheat/gluten intolerant, have Coeliac disease, etc. Being able to have bread & cakes that actually taste like bread & cakes is now a reality!
