What's this? A Break from Books?

Well yes, briefly because I've been posting photos of my bread on Facebook, and everyone wants the recipe.

This recipe is comparable to artisan bread but was really simple to make. It has that olive/garlic taste that goes so well as toast with soups, on sandwiches, with eggs at breakfast time, with sprouts, avocado, and whenever you want a flavorful bread that you don't plan on putting jelly on.

I'm gluten and dairy intolerant, so there's no milk or eggs in this bread.

I use Red Mill gluten-free baking flour and Red Mill Millet flour. We purchase our flour in bulk and that I have 25 lbs of Millet flour was really an accident. My husband went to the store to buy the flour and came back with Millet flour. He said with wide innocent eyes "But it's gluten free!" Of course, being in the middle of Covid, there were no returns so he set it outside on a dry shelf in the garage for a few days and I finally told him to bring it in and I'll try cooking with it. I added it 1 cup to 2 cups of the baking flour and was thrilled with how light and fluffy it made my bread. So now it goes in all my recipes.

This is what I put in my bread maker to make this. It's a basic yeast bread recipe for a bread-making machine made for lactose and gluten intolerant people.

As with all bread making recipes, put your liquids in first.

I used 3 c warm chicken broth (Swanson's) 1 t vinegar, 1 t salt, 1/4 C olive oil margarine,

2 T egg replacer 1 T Flax seed (these are mixed with 7 T water and soaked until thick and then added)

Then I add 2 C Red Mill Baking Flour and 1 C Millet Flour, and 1/4 c sugar 1 1/2 t Xanthum Gum. Make a hole in the flour and add 1 3/4 t yeast .

I throw in about 2 T garlic powder, 1/4 onion grated, a handful of black olives chopped, 2 T Italian seasoning. All this to taste. You can add grated cheese, peppers, anything you'd like!

Turn on the bread maker to DOUGH and when it's done rising once, bake in a loaf pan in a preheated oven at 350 until done, about 1/2 hour to 45 minutes.

Enjoy. Remember you can read a good novel while the bread is rising.