Gluten Free Caraway Rye Dough Food

GLUTEN-FREE CARAWAY "RYE" DOUGH

Steps:

• Measure flours and cornstarch into 16 cup bowl, whisk to combine well.
• Whisk in xanthan gum, yeast caraway seeds & salt.
• Lightly beat eggs in a separate bowl, add cocoa, water, molasses, oil & vinegar to the eggs. Whisk to combine.
• Add wet ingredients to flour mixture, and whisk until a smooth, very loose, batter-like dough forms.
• Cover bowl with plastic wrap (or a shower cap) & let rise at room temperature for 2 hours or until the dough has nearly risen to the top of the bowl & has a thick, golden, mashed potato-like appearance.
• Use immediately, or refrigerate for up to 3 days before baking.
• For 1/2 a recipe of dough grease a 9 x 5 loaf pan, or scoop about 1/3 cup of batter into each of 12 greased muffin cups, cover with a teatowel & let rest at room temp for 40 minutes.
• For artisan baking, preheat oven to 350°. Heat baking stone on middle rack & broiler pan on lower rack for about 30 minutes while preheating oven.
• Pour 2 cups hot water into broiler pan. Place loaf pan or muffin pan on hot stone. If making 2 loaves, place pans at least 3" apart on baking stone.
• Bake rolls for 22 - 25 minutes, loaves for 27 - 30 minutes, till crust is medium dark brown. Instant read thermometer inserted in center should read at least 190° F, or 90°C
• Cool in pans on wire rack for 10 minutes. Remove from pans & let cool on rack.

CARAWAY RYE

Steps:

• Blend all ingredients together, knead for 7-10minutes, by hand or machine. Your dough should be smooth and a bit sticky,as that is the nature of rye bread dough.
• Place in a lightly oiled bowl, cover with a damp cloth or lightly oiled (I use cooking spray) cling film. Let rise until doubled, about an hour, maybe longer depending on the room temperature
• Gently deflate, and form as you like. Free form or in a bread pan. I bake it free form, on a sheet pan lined with parchment paper.
• Preheat the oven to 375, and let the bread rise until it is almost doubled.
• Slash with a sharp exacto , a lame or a serrated knife. Every method works, but I prefer an exacto.
• Spritz with water and place in the hot oven.
• Bake for 15 minutes, turn the pan for even browning and bake for 15 minutes more, or until the internal temperature is 190 or sounds hollow when tapped.
• * Or you can throw all the ingredients in a bread machine set on the dough cycle, let rise in the machine and then continue with above instructions.

BROWN SODA BREAD LOAF WITH CARAWAY SEEDS AND RYE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter an 8 1/2 x 4 1/2 x 2 1/2-inch bread pan.
• In a large bowl, mix together flours, steel-cut oats, rolled oats, brown sugar, salt, caraway seeds and sifted baking soda. Mix well with your hands.
• Make a well in the center of the flour mixture. Pour in the buttermilk. Working from the center of the bowl in concentric clockwise circles, with fingers outstretched stir buttermilk into flour mixture. (You can use a rubber spatula instead if you don't like getting dough on your hands.) This should take about a half a minute at most. Dough will be quite moist. Use a rubber spatula to scrape into bread pan and smooth out dough to fill the pan evenly (pan will be filled only about halfway.)
• Place in oven and bake 40 minutes, until dark brown and a tester inserted comes out clean. Remove from pan and cool on a rack.

RYE BREAD (GLUTEN-FREE)

Steps:

• Whisk or sift dry ingredients together.
• Proof yeast with sugar in warm water. Once nice and foamy, slowly pour into dry ingredients.
• Add wet ingredients, mix well.
• Transfer to 8" loaf pan and allow to rise in a warm location for 20-30 minutes.
• Bake in oven preheated to 350F for 35-45 minutes, until internal temperature is about 200°F.