Doves Farm Gluten Free White Bread Flour 1 kg (Pack of 5)

We buy this regularly because one member of the family is gluten intolerant. Excellent value. Makes acceptable bread, even for gluten tolerant people.

If you follow the suggested recipe, it works very well. However the bread itself doesn’t last more than a day because it starts to degrade and go a bit powdery in flavour and texture when it’s not fresh.

I followed the White Bread recipe on the back of the bag, which was very easy as it does NOT require kneading like normal bread: all you do is add all the ingredients, stir well until it is well mixed then place into an oiled 2lb loaf tin,cover with oiled ling film; then leave until the dough has reached the top of the tin; then bake it in the oven. This was my first attempt and I wasn't quite sure if I was using the right dried yeast or when to know if the yeast had been 'activated' properly? So I just added a little warm water to the yeast and stirred it until it formed a smooth consistency and then added that straight to the bowl containing the very wet bread 'batter'. The dough or batter took about 2 hours to rise just above the top of the tin - at which point I placed it on the middle shelf of my gas oven on Mark 7 and set the alarm for 50 minutes. But luckily, I peeped through the glass oven door after about 35 minutes and to my surprise, the top of the loaf was already a tad too brown so I took it out of the oven, turned it out and patted the bottom and sure enough it sounded hollow (as I think I remembered loaves sounding when I used to make bread 40 years ago). So I left it to cool and when I started slicing it, I was absolutely delighted at its appearance and texture, which was white and springy :-) The sliced, ready made gluten free bread I purchased at a well known supermarket was definitely not springy: in fact that was so un elastic that it just broke if I tried to fold a slice. Next came the taste test and again, I was absolutely delighted to discover that it also tasted a lot better than the aforementioned ready made bread I'd purchased :-) UPDATE 6 February 2020: Sadly, the bread had lost ALL of its springiness when kept in a polythene bag overnight. And the slices I froze in polythene bags had also lost ALL of its springiness.

Bread tasted weird with this flour.

Does what it says, perfect.

Gluten free and at a good price which is handy to have in cupboard as not many shops near me stock Gluten free products. A lot cheaper than most as Gluten Free food seem to be a lot more.

Very easy to use.

Follow the instructions & it makes a good loaf of bread in my maker. Its important to beat the whites though to get the air in the mix.