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# Tried & tested: gluten-free bread
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## Our new weekly column sources the best gadgets, shops and food. Today:
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gluten-free bread
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![Slice of life: gluten-free bread can struggle to taste bready
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Slice of life: gluten-free bread can struggle to taste bready
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[![Rose Prince][2]][3]
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By [Rose Prince][4] 5:52PM GMT 20 Jan 2011
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[Follow Rose Prince on Twitter][5]
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[Comments][6]
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When I was growing up, the after-dinner coffee tray was just that: coffee,
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brown sugar crystals and cream. No tea - and definitely no herbal. If my
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father had lived to hear someone ask for fresh mint or green tea, the
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explosion would have been heard across county borders.
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Yet coffee is not the only victim of fashionable beliefs and doctor's
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warnings. Fellow diners sit on their hands when the bread basket is put on the
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restaurant table and my girlfriends pat their tummies, shaking their heads,
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when they talk about bread.
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Excuses for this self-denial include ''bloating". It is all terrifically
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''Western"; only in Britain could anyone fuss about bread, for pity's sake.
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Yet coeliacs, the group for whom gluten, the protein that gives bread dough
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its elasticity, is a real danger, long to eat bread. Mothers of coeliac
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children are forever in search of the holy grail: the gluten-free loaf that
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looks and tastes like ordinary sliced bread.
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Almost all children hate to stand out from the crowd, and unwrapping a packed
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lunch containing a ''sandwich'' made from bread resembling pin board is an
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embarrassment they learn to dread.
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When I first heard of Genius, a gluten-free loaf that seems just like "normal
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bread", I sent it to Verity, a 15 year-old with zero tolerance for gluten. She
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gave it a good write-up. It passed the ''sandwich test'' and her mother found,
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unusually for gluten free, it made a good wheaty breadcrumb coating for fish.
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06 Jan 2011
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* [Rose Prince's recipes for November][11]
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04 Nov 2010
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* [Tried & Tested: Lacanche range cookers][12]
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11 Nov 2010
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Genius was developed by Lucinda Bruce-Gardyne, who wanted to create bread that
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her young, wheat-intolerant son would enjoy. The grains in her bread include
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tapioca flour, rice bran and millet flakes, and the unusually springy, real
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bread-ish texture is achieved with potato starch, egg white, xanthan gum,
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sugar beet flakes and yeast; ingredients that while not 100 per cent natural,
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are not nasty either.
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I was suspicious that enzyme processing aids had been added to soften the
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bread. There is some debate about these additives, which are widely used in
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commercial baking; they're not listed as an ingredient on the label because it
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is claimed they are destroyed in the baking process. Genius would not reveal
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if they are used in the recipe.
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Genius looks, feels and smells bready. When you bite either the white or
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brown, something quite odd happens: it breaks rather than tears. The flavour
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of the brown is quite treacly, the white more savoury.
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Both, as expected when the dough is made from such flavour-challenged grains,
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taste salty - six slices would meet a small child's recommended daily
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allowance of 3g, which is not much. For many with a serious wheat intolerance,
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however, Genius will be a breakthrough. It is available in all main
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supermarkets, or online.
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Also recommended are some of the breads made by Artisan Bread Organic, a
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bakery whose solid loaves might resemble materials bought from Travis Perkins
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but which are nicely crafted using ingredients that have real grainy flavour.
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These are not "sliced and wrapped" impersonators; none is made with commercial
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yeast but a natural, gluten-free leaven made from a ferment of grain and
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honey.
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Its gluten-free breads include those made with rice, buckwheat, quinoa,
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linseed and pea.
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* Genius: [**www.geniusglutenfree.com**][13], 400g loaf £2.49. Alternatively
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contact 0845 8744000 for stockists
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* Artisan Bread Organic: [**www.artisanbread-abo.com**][14], 400g loaves
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from £2.60 - can be frozen if bought in bulk. Alternatively inquire about
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stockists on 01227 771881
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## [Food and Drink][20]
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* ### [Lifestyle »][21]
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* ### [Rose Prince »][3]
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toy figures][22] ][23]
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Food][24] ][25]
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