Soda bread is it gluten free?

[Romany]

Can anyone tell me if Soda bread is gluten free please?

[sassyl]

Most is not. Just read your Blog post though - there's a GF Soda bread recipe on the Doves Farm website that works quite well

[Mari65]

Hi there, If it has Gluten, wheat, wheatflour, rye, Barley, Oats Soya Sauce or Yeast then No it's not Gluten Free.

[ladyshelly in reply to Mari65]

Yeast ?

[Romany]

Thanks guys. Will try and make my own x

[KarenBC]

Hi there. My daughter is gluten and yeast intolerant so I have to make my own GF soda bread as its very difficult to buy. I use Dive's brown bread flour, bicarb, salt, natural yoghurt, warm water and it comes out a treat. Trick is to keep mixture very very sloppy. Good luck

[Hidden]

I agree with lady shelly. Why include yeast. As long as it is bakers yeast and is gluten free it should be ok. I will think that you can have a reaction to yeast but that's another issue. Might be wrong though.

[swarthy in reply to Hidden]

I guess you can potentially have a reaction to anything

A friends son was initially thought to be coeliac - but having cut his diet back to the bone and following a GF diet, it seems that Yeast is the culprit not wheat / gluten - he's now following a yeast free diet and his symptoms appear to have gone

[meanioni in reply to swarthy]

not much point in having yeast in a soda bread as the point of the soda in soda bread is to create bubbles of CO2 to make it rise (as yeast does in normal bread).

Yeast is a dodgy allergy as it can mean issues with alcohol, fruit, grapes, marmite, mushrooms.... nasty

[Liana]

Here is a great gluten free traditional soda bread recipe. I bake it in a frying pan in the oven.

foodchallenges.ca/tradition...

My own flour blend is now 1 &1/3 cups quinoa flour, 1&1/3 cups sorghum flour and 1& 1/3 cups tapioca starch with 2 tsp xanthan gum as a binder. ( I don't eat wheats, rices or corns, so this makes a nice blend with lots of protien and fibre. The crumb is excellent. It can be eaten plain or toasted. It freezes well and makes great stuffing/ dressing for poultry or pork.) If you're going to use it to make bread pudding change the spices from savoury to sweet (cinnamon etc)

[Butterfly2028]

I've just been told to go on a gluten free diet and it's all overwhelming, not knowing what to eat, what breads are gluten free. Am interested in making my own. The soda sounds a good option, will try it any easy recipes for a novice?