Gluten Free Bread Baking Question

Nic and I just moved everything in to our new home in Florida. I am ordering a bread machine from Amazon, but I had a question about GF bread baking that was on my mind. I was thinking about adding flaxseed to the flour mixture. Will that mess up the dough, or would it be alright to add in? Because we will primarily be using rice flours for the bread, I wanted to try to add a bit more nutrition. With that in mind . . . do they sell brown rice flour? Maybe I need to look into that. I have a great recipe for bread from a GF baking cookbook by Elizabeth Barbone. I had the honor of attending a class she gave at our local Wegman's in PA and was able to taste it (as well as her chocolate chip cookies and banana bread). It was great! I'm excited to eat that kind of bread again.

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Lawrence J, H. Nov 6, 2009, 9:12pm EST

can't really answer that question. but can tell you that bread machine's where made for people who can't make bread on their own.. the machine's can't make bread as good as the average human bread maker, that said i am not a good bread maker but i can make better bread then most machine's.. i know this because i have gone through 8 different bread machines and all make the same bread. now my mom can make the best bread in the family and i am always right there when she makes bread you have to see to learn right?? it is hard work to make bread that is why i have tried different kinds of machines

Michelle C (faithhopelove20) Nov 6, 2009, 9:27pm EST

I was lucky enough to get a recommendation for the best bread machine to handle Gluten Free bread from a GF cookbook author during her class. I used to like making bread by hand, but I'm not sure I would now that I can't use the wheat flours. The properties are completely different.

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Marsha S. Nov 6, 2009, 9:35pm EST

I can't be of any help since we can all have gluten here....but I would love to have a bread machine

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tammy b. Nov 6, 2009, 11:19pm EST

Can't help either, but let us know what you find out.

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Debra C. Nov 7, 2009, 1:08am EST

I have used flaxseed successfully in GF muffins but have not tried it in bread. Having done bread by hand and in bread machines, I tend to prefer the result when done by hand, especially if putting in some stiffer or harder ingredients which seeds would be.

Michelle C (faithhopelove20) Nov 7, 2009, 10:28am EST

I'll keep that in mind, thanks! I may try to bake bread by hand every once in a while, not sure that I would do it everyday, so maybe I'll save the flaxseed for the times I do make it by hand.

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Janet "Jax" B. Nov 7, 2009, 6:52pm EST

I'm not sure...I would imagine you could. I have made bread by hand, but I haven't used the bread machine in a while.

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