Hi All --

I was wondering if anyone had any opinions or advice on which machine would be best for baking gluten free bread? I'm looking for one that would let me put my ingredients in the same way a regular loaf is made instead of premixing it in a bowl and dumping it in the breadmachine to bake as I've seen mentioned on blogs. Basically I hate mixing GF dough. :)

I'm always looking for new GF bread/biscuit recipes if anyone has any to share.

Thanks so much!

I've always heard rumours that if you went to a big supermarket in the UK and asked for fresh yeast, they would give you some for free.  I'd always dismissed this as an urban myth - and a fairly unlikely one at that, until I heard it mentionned as fact on BBC Radio 4 (and everything I ever learnt comes from Radio 4).

I was too shy to try it myself, so I sent my husband in and he came out triumphant with about 100g of fresh yeast in a little bag which a member of staff from the in-store bakery had happily given him.  Is this unique to Tesco's or do other places do it to?

What I'd really like to know is - Why?  Why do they give it away free, rather than sell it?  Or just say, "No, get your own yeast?"

I would speculate it might go back to some ancient bakery-related law, but I've got nothing to base that on, except guess work.  Can anyone throw any light on this very pleasant mystery?

Hello Loafians-