If you have recently decided to give up eating yeast, or you are thinking about giving it up, you are probably wondering about the bread options available. Most bread contains yeast, so it’s good to know what your yeast-free bread options are, so that you know where to buy it or how to make it yourself.
The majority of people with an allergy or intolerance to yeast have a specific problem with manufactured yeast, but can tolerate natural yeast. In this instance, such a person can eat sourdough bread. However, the trick is to use a proper sourdough starter which doesn’t have any added yeast.
But What’s a Starter?
A starter (also called a “levain”) is an ancestral form of pre-ferment which is used to make the sourdough bread. But what is sourdough? Well, sourdough is a method of trapping natural yeast. With a good starter, it’s actually possible to make most types of bread. However, there will be a slight sour taste to the bread. This comes from the lactic acid which is produced by the lactobacilli. It is this result sour flavour which give this type of bread it’s name “sourdough”.
However, there is another type of bread you can make, and that is Soda Bread. Check out this great soda bread recipe
What You Will Need:
* 6 cups flour
* 1 tablespoon of baking soda
* One teaspoon of salt
* 2 eggs
* 3 cups of yoghurt
How to make the soda bread:
1. Mix the flour, baking soda and the salt.
2. Add the eggs and yoghurt and mix thoroughly.
3. Thoroughly kneed it for approximately 5 minutes.
4. Put into two bread tins and bake for approximately 30 minutes.
By using a great yeast free bread recipe like this, you’ll be able to make it just how you like it. Also, you can enjoy it warm, straight from the oven. Now that’s something you certainly don’t get with bread bought from the supermarket.
There are still a lot of great, tasty foods that a person can eat once you have stopped eating yeast. Eating a yeast free diet is actually a lot easier than you might think. For FREE information about living on a yeast free diet, visit Yeast Free Diets
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