Gluten-Free on a Shoestring Bakes Bread: (Biscuits, Bagels, Buns, and More)

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If you're eating gluten-free, you know the challenges of bread. You probably know where to get the packaged stuff,and you know the exorbitant cost. Maybe you've bought mixes and bread makers in a vain attempt to avoid the mystery of how to bake gluten-free at home altogether. Now, thanks to Nicole Hunn, you don't have to settle for the high price of packaged, frozen loaves. Welcome to easy, budget-friendly, delicious recipes for all your favourites, from shaped breads to flatbreads, biscuits, scones, and muffins. You'll learn to master lean crusty white bread, hearty whole-grain, fragrant cinnamon swirl, decadent cheese bread, not to mention a wild yeast starter you'll use to make everything imaginable, including a real no-rye "rye" bread. And you won't need a bread machine or any fancy supplies. Nicole covers all the essentials, including: recipes from a bread flour that makes it all work, all-purpose flour blends, a whole-grain blend, and a pastry flour key techniques the secrets to working ably with gluten-free dough and even a whole section on troubleshooting, in case things go off the rails a bit. gluten-free on a Shoestring Bakes Bread tells you everything you need to know to make the artisan-style bread you've been missing,and at a fraction of the cost.

Nicole Hunn is the creator of the gluten-free on a Shoestring book series and blog, which has been featured in the New York Times and MSN Money. Her work has been featured on Epicurious.com, The Daily Meal, BetterTV, Living Without, among others, and she is a regular contributor to SheKnows.com. She lives with her family in Westchester County, New York. Visit Nicole at glutenfreeonashoestring.com.

Living Without, February/March 2014 "[Nicole is] a maven of gluten-free economy."