My mother has an allergy to wheat but would like to use her bread
maker to bake wheat-free loaves.  Can anyone recommend some recipes
that they have found to work successfully in a bread maker using
alternatives to wheat flour?

She has tried recipes from various cookbooks with varying degrees of
success, I think that a certain amount of experimentation is required
to achieve a good result, perhaps the ga gang can provide some
guidance.

Hello,

While I've never tried out these recipes, I've found recipes from a
variety of sources which are specifically tailored for bread making
machines. One comes from a site which has a bunch of traditional
baking wheat-free bread recipes. So I'm sure that these recipes work
because they are user submitted, and come with very clear/easy to
follow directions. First a little bit on wheat flour alternatives
(taken from a wheat-free website linked below):

"
Rice - usually brown rice
Potato - sometimes sold as "farina" - very starchy. Good for binding.
Also good for coating meat for stir-fry, etc.
Maize (corn) - older country folks may refer to this as "yellah mael"
(yellow meal). A nice flavour. Try to get the very fine ground as the
coarser flours are gritty.
Buckwheat (no relation of wheat) - A pleasant strong taste.
Soya - A good general purpose flour but not such a pleasant taste.
Millet
Oat flour
Barley - A nice soft flour with a pleasant flavour.
Rye (contains gluten so not good for celiacs) - A dark brown flour.
"

And below are a couple recipes that I've found.


Search Strategy:

"wheat free" breadmaker recipes on google:
://www.google.com/search?q=%22Wheat+free%22+breadmaker+recipes

Additional Links:

Great discussion thread on wheat-free bread maker machine recipes:
http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/specex/msg11211954480.html

Another recipe:
http://www.iol.ie/~drbutler/flour.html

Same site as above, and gives more traditional baking recipes
including pizza dough recipes:
http://www.go.to/wheatfree

Another recipe:
http://www.glutenfreegoodies.co.nz/bread.htm#Home Breadmaker Recipe

Another recipe:
http://fooddownunder.com/cgi-bin/recipe.cgi?r=16897

Another recipe:
http://fooddownunder.com/cgi-bin/recipe.cgi?r=17166

Another recipe:
http://fooddownunder.com/cgi-bin/recipe.cgi?r=17167

Almond bread:
http://fooddownunder.com/cgi-bin/recipe.cgi?r=2374


Glad I could help!

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