Best Buns Ever (aka
Bread Winner)
contains milk, yeast and eggs
Preheat oven to 200 degrees and turn OFF for raising your bread.
Mix dry ingredients in a large bowl (wide base is better for mixing).
1 1/2 cups rice flour (brown and/or white)
1 cup potato starch
1 cup tapioca flour
2 Tbls sugar
1 Tbls xanthan gum
1 1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup dry milk powder
1 pkg dry yeast
1 tsp unflavored gelatin (Knox)
Melt
2 Tbls butter/margarine into
1 1/2 cups water... warm to 130 degrees. Add
1 tsp rice or
apple cider vinegar.
Gradually add water mixture to dry ingredients, and mix well with electric beater.
Add
3 eggs, one at a time, and beat between each addition. Use room temperature eggs...can be warmed in hot water if you haven't set eggs out.
Beat three minutes.
Put into two regular loaf pans (5x9), one extra long pan, 12 hamburger buns, or 24 dinner rolls using cupcake tins. The cupcake buns make good little sandwich buns for younger children.
Raise in warmed (but turned off) oven for about one hour (up to fifteen minutes beyond if necessary), covered with a light cloth.
Leave pan in oven (remove cloth!) and turn oven on to 375 degrees and bake:
35 minutes for buns or muffins
50 minutes for bread
(if your bread gets too brown, you can rest foil over the top for the last fifteen minutes of bake time)
Cool on rack;
remove from pan after ten minutes and continue to cool on rack.
*To make milk free, omit dry milk powder and use 1 1/2 cup gf rice or almond milk in place of water.
Hint: Dough should not be too stiff. Your beaters should not bounce. It is hard to describe texture, but it should be smooth and beaters should be able to move through it without too much difficulty. It should be somewhere between the consistency of cake batter and cookie batter. I have found there is great variability of flour densitivity between brands. If needed, add more water, 1 Tbsp at a time, or an extra egg white, to get the right consistency. Don't give up~ it may take some experimentation to get the right consistency...not too stiff, not too wet, but just right .