Now for the other stuff. the book itself is a black and white, minimally illustrated 68 pages long. The first 12 pages are devoted to the author’s history with gluten free baking. Pages 12 to 19 explain how to bake gluten free breads in a bread machine – more specifically, in the zojirushi Home bakery supreme. This is where the highlight of the book is : HOW TO PROGRAM YOUR ZOJIRUSHI TO BAKE GLUTEN FREE BREADS. The remaining 50 pages have 16 main bread recipes and tweaked versions of those 16 recipes. EG. Multi grain artisan bread has two sub-recipes: multi grain walnut artisan bread and multi grain pecan artisan bread. All this says is to dump in 3/4 cup of nuts in when the “mix-in” signal goes off.

The recipes themselves. I tried the basic sandwich bread recipe three times with poor results. The bread mix that the author recommends includes millet flour, sorghum flour, cornstarch, potato starch and tapioca starch. The millet has a slightly bitter flavor with my 8 year old celiac picked up on right away. The bread sank in the middle every time. I tweaked the liquids, I made sure the eggs were room temperature, I bought fresh yeast. Nada. it was also ridiculously crumbly. There was no buttering a slice without it falling apart.

I also tried the Challah bread recipe which was not sweet enough and also very crumbly. On the other hand, the bake cycle the author describes turned out perfect loaves when I used recipes from other recipe books. So, I think the issue here lies with the recipes and not the machine or in something I am doing.

So, in sum, I am disappointed in how much i paid for a cookbook that I will probably only look at if I need to reprogram the bake cycle in my machine.

If you are looking for a first time gluten free breadmaking cookbook I recommend books by the Bette Hagman or by Carol Fenster instead.
Rating: 3 / 5

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and find out that the line of products are “Celiac Disease Foundation and the Celiac Sprue Association” approved.

My advice to the reviewers that gave this a 1 star because no ingredient information was listed, I hate lazy people!,

next time do an Internet search (it’s easy, ever hear of Google),

go to the product website to get the information,

stop bashing a product for information Amazon does not have and

keep your thoughts to yourself until you actually try the product.

I give 5 stars to Betty Crocker for stepping up and giving a minority population a product in mainstream grocery stores at a reasonable price. I searched the Betty Crocker website and found that these are not avaiable anywhere in my zip code yet.

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I have ordered all 4 Gluten-Free products from Amazon and look forward to baking!
Rating: 5 / 5

I have two loaves in the oven right now. They smell fantastic!
Rating: 5 / 5

This book changed everything for us! Since we already had the zojirushi, and were fans GF Baking Classics, this book was a no brainer. My child is once again enjoying pb & j’s like most children at that age. Even Gluten eaters come into my home and want some!! We absolutely love the cinnamon swirl bread, which I have to make two loaves at a time… one for eating hot, while the whole house smells wonderful… and the other for french toast the next morning!!

The book is small, but I would have paid twice as much for the content. It has allowed my child to be just that much more like a regular kid with a regular diet. Then again, that is what all of Annalise’s recipes do. They make you forget you’re eating gf altogether.
Rating: 5 / 5