Sunday, April 10, 2011

Bread

If you need a gluten free bread fix whilst in Singapore, you are far better off cost-wise baking at home than buying frozen from Cold Storage. However, if you are passing through and want something for your travels, Jason's marketplace at Tanglin mall sells frozen Country life bread which defrosts quite nicely. Expect to pay about S$13.50 a loaf. Jason's in City Hall sells frozen rice bread, but this definitely needs toasting and is a typical crumbly rice bread. Not really worth the S$11.50 you will pay.

If you have an oven at your disposal, there are a few mixes to choose from. My favorite is the gluten free easy bake mix by orgran, http://www.orgran.com/products/161/. This is so easy to make, difficult to screw up, involves no messing around with yeast and the wholemeal version has psyllium for that added fibre so often missing from gluten free bread. The Fair Price supermarket at Bedok stocks both the white and the wholegrain versions, along with a huge sample of other orgran products. The end result is you have a fresh, gluten free loaf that you can enjoy in bread form for the first few days before it goes crumbly, and toast after that. No bread maker or kneading necessary, it's as simple as a cupcake packet mix. Depending on the size of your tin, you can get a loaf out of this about 1.5 times that of the frozen lines and for approximately half the price.

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