Luce's Gluten Free Sourdough Mix Review

Tasty, Tasty Gluten Free Sourdough.

This morning i woke up at 6am, mostly due to my inability to get out of work mode when it comes to the weekends, oh and let’s not forget the two cats i also have as my personal alarm clocks. The husband just rolls over away from the cats in the morning and somehow blocks out the purrs, the meows and the war dances.

This Luce’s Gluten Free Sourdough Mix had been waiting in my baking cupboard since i placed my first order with Freego, if you haven’t tried them yet i would recommended taking a browse over at their wonderful website, it’s full of lots of interesting artisan free from foods. Luce’s Gluten-Free Artisan Bread company are based in America and have a whole range of gluten free bread mixes from inventive ‘Really ‘Rye’ to ‘OMG Flatbread’.

The back of the Luce’s packet seemed pretty straight forward so i grabbed my mixing bowl and got to it. The first thing i noticed with the mix was the ingredients list, no dried sourdough starter inside or anything so assumed it will be modified to taste like sourdough but i am certainly no sourdough expert!

Brown Rice Flour, Potato starch, Sorghum Flour, Modified Tapioca Starch, Millet Flour, Rice Flour, Salt, Yeast and Xanthan Gum.

The methods were simple- add water and stir 50 times. The only thing that was different was using a bag to bake the dough in, i am one for experimenting so was excited to give it a go. You place your wet mixture onto a provided parchment sheet which you then slide into a parchment bag to bake in the oven as it rises to 205c for 85 minutes.

At 60 minutes i was rather impatient… the smell of my kitchen was so torturous that it woke up husband from his slumber with hunger pains. I pulled it out of the oven at 72 minutes, i knocked it on the back and it sounded hollow- all was cooked well. Everyone of these bread mixes says to wait for it to cool but tell me i’m not the only one who nibbles the edge and burns their tongue am i?

A few hours later we had this with some salad, and i have to say it really is one of the best tasting gluten free breads i have tried. The texture is also spot on, that crust is very addictive. Perfect bread to start off a dinner party, dipping chunks into olive oil.

The loaf was however, quite small- don’t expect this to rise like a sandwich loaf, which makes me question if i would get this on a weekly/monthly basis. The price is £4.99 ex delivery when i ordered with Freego but i’m not sure it’s something i would fork out for weekly, if it was more widely available i may think otherwise. It is certainly a treat worth trying.

I’m off to America soon so i will see if i can pick up any more of their mixes to try!

For more on their mixes: www.lucegfbread.com

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