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Instant Wheat-Free Brown Soda Bread: A Bread for Toddlers

The perfect rich hearty bread to fill up a child’s stomach in a healthy way. This wheat-free bread is not-dairy free and contains goat or sheeps milk and yogurt. The chemical reactions with the lime juice and goat/sheep milk help the bread rise and contribute to flavor and texture. This recipe is based off of an original Irish Soda Bread recipe. It is perfect for those seasons rich in local goat milk and when you want a hearty dinner without much effort. Start the dough before you start a vegetable soup, or an hour before so that it is ready two hours from the time you started.

Prep Time: 20 active minutes for dough, 40 minutes for milk to curdle, 45 min rise time

Cook Time: 36 minutes

If you let your bread rise too long because you were at a party next door, it may fall a tiny bit in the center, no worries, it will still make lovely sandwiches and toast with marmalade.

This is an adaption of brown irish soda bread and is a gluten free soda bread with a number of changes to make it function without cow’s milk or the traditional buttermilk. You can also make it a vegan soda bread by substituting cashew-sunflower milk for the goat’s milk and coconut yogurt for the goat yogurt. You can also use kefir in place of the yogurt. It uses all wheat free flour and gf bread flour. The gf bread flour I use is the same as my basic GF flour mix, but for inexperience bakers, I suggest adding 1 t guar gum into your gf bread flour mix. This will help keep it from crumbling and protect from poor judgement on when rising is complete. It is hard to say if this is the best tasting gluten free bread recipe from Carmen Cook, but it is definitely the best tasting gluten free bread when compared to anything available on the market.

Instructions:

The lime juice in the bread along with the addition of some yeast gives it the flavor of a sourdough soda bread. This recipe makes one loaf.

“Buttermilk Mix:
Juice of two limes or 2 T lime juice
3/4 c goats milk

Dry Mix:
2 c GF flour mix
1 1/2 c teff flour
1/2 c flax seed
1 t baking powder
1 t baking soda

Yeast Mix:
1/4 – 1/3 c warm water
1 1/2 t yeast
2 T sugar (unrefined, organic demara or muscavado)

Wet Mix:
1 c goat milk yogurt
2 T melted coconut oil

Steps:
  1. Combine each “mix” above separately.
  2. The goat milk and lime juice needs to curdle for 45 minutes.
  3. The yeast mixture should start bubbling after 3-10 minutes with a beer like froth. If it does not start over. Your water was either too hot or your yeast is dead.
  4. Combine wet mix, yeast mix, and buttermilk mix. Then add in the dry mix in four sections.
  5. Turn oven on to 400 degrees Fahrenheit (200 degrees Celsius)
  6. Grease a bread pan heavily with coconut oil and dust well with flour.
  7. Pour the dough in the pan and pat out the top to be smooth or slightly rounded in the center.
  8. Place pans on top of an oven to assist with rising. Your oven should not be on, but if it was recently on, or you are cooking on one other burner in an 70-80 F ambient temperature, this is perfect.
  9. Preheat your oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit 10 minutes before putting bread in the oven. Place the bread in the oven after 30-45 minutes or until your bread has risen within 1/2 inch of the top of the pan. The bread should feel porous instead of dense when touched gently on the top.
  10. Bake for 10 minutes at 400 degrees Fahrenheit and then reduce the heat to 150 degrees Celsius or 325 degrees Fahrenheit. Bake for 20 -35 more minutes until the bread sounds and feels hollow when tapped on the top with the flat side of a spatula or bread knife (or your fingers for experienced Chefs!)
  11. Love your bread. Serve with a mixed vegetable soup topped with goat butter or coconut oil.
This bread makes a veggie sandwich so much more flavorful than meat and cheese. Carrot Fries on the side: Roast carrot sticks in coconut oil at 350 F, 30 min or until desired doneness.

Variation: Vegan Wheat-Free Irish Soda Bread

Use a nut milk from the following blended ingredients and substitute this for the goat’s milk in the above recipe. You can also use coconut milk, thinned with water to be a similar consistency to cows milk (about 1 part coconut milk to 1 part water). Substitute Forager brand cashew milk yogurt for the above yogurt. This brand performs well for baking.

1/3 c cashews
2 T sunflower seeds
5 3/4 c water (fill blender after nuts are added)

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