Ordinary Adventures of Sarah Hoot

Ladies and gentlemen, I am giving up. This recipe is not working and I do not know what to do with it. So I think that I will have to do what I said I wouldn't do in the beginning: I am going to use a recipe. I was looking through Pinterest and I found a recipe for gluten free Irish soda bread, so I am going to try out this recipe and see if it works. If it does work, then I will post pictures and the recipe here on my blog with links to the original site. My Attempts Before baking (my loaves usually look alright) Well, I first wanted to start making this after helping Mama Ramey make Irish soda bread at a St. Paddy's day party. Her recipe was simple, just flour, baking soda, salt and buttermilk; so I assumed that I could take that recipe, use a 1-1 gluten free blend and make it work. However, all of my attempts have turned out really dense and under-baked. I have tried all of the fixes that I could think of but nothing is seeming to work. Conclusions While I have...

Hello and welcome to gluten free baking with Sarah, this week I make a second attempt at creating gluten free Irish soda bread. For those who are following my baking attempts, you may remember that my first attempt at making this bread did not turn out very good. There was a weird aftertaste, it was super dense and not baked through all the way. So without further ado, here is round two (haha fire rhymes). Baking Begins Fixing the Problems This attempt at making soda bread turned out a bit better than the first time. I added some sugar to the mix which (I think) helped with the aftertaste. Now it is less better than it was before, there is still a different taste because it is gluten free and gluten free bread usually has a different taste. The next thing I set out to fix was the crumbliness of the bread, to do that I added some xantham gum to the mix (for those who aren't gluten free, xantham gum is used as a fiber source to bind the bread together). I also tried using l...

OK guys, so I am attempting to make gluten free Irish soda bread after going home for a St. Patrick's day party. While I was there I got to work with Mama Ramey to make soda bread for the first time and then eating it. Unfortunately, since it was non gluten free, that plus all of the other food and alcohol from the night I got pretty sick. So now I am on a mission to make this Irish favorite gluten free. Now I am sure that everyone is thinking "why don't you just look for a gluten free recipe on the internet?" And to that I say HA! Where is the fun in that? So now I am working on making my own recipe for it. Problems Arose Outside looks alright Look at the inside: under-baked and dense However, the first time making anything is never perfect and there were a LOT of issues with this first attempt. Here is the list of issues I had with the bread: WAAAAY too dense (seriously, like a rock), too dry (started crumbling apart), weird aftertaste (though this ma...