posted 8 hours ago
Hubby has celiac, and best grain for us to grow is corn. The thing is we don't like the special ingredients people use to bake gluten-free breads (like the gums, tapioca, sorgum, etc). I've got a few recipes for bread using homegrown corn as the grain that I'm going to try when our corn is ready for that, but I'm also interested in sourdough.
Has anyone tried making sourdough with corn (and without the gums, etc), using just eggs, salt, yeast, butter/oil, baking powder, and/or baking soda? Or have any recipes? Think it would work (and taste good)?
Would chia or summer squash help? We can grow those, and if fresh isn't good for this the squash is easy to dehydrate (and even powder from there). Not into the psyllium husks. Ground nuts or seeds are fine, however I don't want to go heavy on almond as we aren't growing it and it's expensive. We are growing pecans, but I haven't heard of pecan flour for bread (wondering if that'd be good now, lol). We also have lots of mesquite, but timing the harvest of them mature before it rains hasn't been working out. Besides, I'm starting to think I may be allergic to eating mesquite flour - tastes lovely in a sweet way at first, then aftertaste is just plain wrong feeling and my body wants to spit it out along with all its saliva for several minutes after trying a tiny tiny bit.
I'm also good with potatoes and sweet potatoes (or turnips, carrots, other veg root crops eaten as food on their own) if they can be used in a way that I can reasonably make from growing them.