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4.5
These are great recipes, even in a small machine. I use a Zojirushi BB-HAC10 Home Bakery Programmable Mini Breadmaker, and was delighted to see that Addis gives instructions for adapting recipes. Though my Zojirushi's quick bread cycle takes two hours and her recipes are for machines with one-hour cycles, they still work just fine. My favorites include the maple oat bread (which I make with agave syrup) and the Italian Dried Tomato Bread - though the multi-grain bread is really good too, and I haven't tried a recipe I didn't like.These recipes do use eggs, and for one-loaf machines the instructions call for using 2 eggs instead of 3 along with half the other ingredients). The result is a bread with a slight custardy texture, though not annoyingly so, and a great taste - even my husband, who isn't on a gluten-free diet, agrees. The loaves are a bit smaller than others I've made in my machine, probably due to the use of instant yeast. It's still some of the best bread I've had in the almost 20 years I've been gluten-free.The ingredients may require a bit of shopping (online for me, despite my fairly well stocked gluten free pantry). Addis's basic bread flour recipe calls for both soy flour and coconut flour, along with the brown and white rice flours and tapioca starch I always have on hand, and she uses SAF instant yeast and dough enhancer, also new ingredients for me. But the results are well worth it. There are a lot of really appealing recipes in the book - cinnamon or pecan raisin, cheddar cheese, buttermilk onion, Welsh currant, and savory bacon pepper loaf, along with the maple oat and Italian dried tomato and multi-grain breads that are my favorites. After taking years to find recipes to make the simplest kind of edible bread, I'm really looking forward to having a lot of fun with this cookbook, baking some really interesting savory breads at last!P.S. I ordered a copy to give a nephew on a gluten-free diet, and was happy to see that it now comes with a spiral binding, so it will lie flat on its own - much easier to use.
