Ingredients

I shared that i tried making squaw bread a couple of weeks ago. It didn't turn out very good. I probably will try again. I may seek the help of folks who are more experienced gluten-free bread makers than am i. (I don't use a lot of rice flour, BTW. My current mix of flour is wonderful for pancakes, cookies, brownies, muffins. But it didn't do so well with squaw bread.)

There is a restaurant in town, mostly a sandwich shop, that has the most wonderful squaw bread. It is a wonderful, really dark brown, slightly sweet bread. They form it into loaves that are shaped like a French bread roll. When i'm going to cheat, a vegetarian sandwich on this bread is divine! So i asked them where they get the bread. Turns out that it comes to them pre-made dough. They take it out, form it into loaves, let it rise & bake it themselves. So i asked if they had an ingredient list. The owner promised to get it for me. And he did. Here it is:

• Enriched bleached flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, iron, thiamine monoonitrate, riboflavin)
• Wheat flour
• Water
• Sugar
• Shortening (palm oil, mono & diglycerides, polysorbate 60 & citric acid)
• Yeast
• Wheat gluten
• Hulled millet

Contains 2% or less of:

• Molassas
• Salt
• Whey
• Non-fat dry milk
• Soy flour
• Mono & diglycerides
• Lecithin
• Calcium sulfate
• Ammonium sulfate
• Monocalcium phosphate,
• Fungal amylase
• Ascorbic acid
• maltodextrin
• Potassium iodate
• Azodicarbonamide
• Tricalcium phosphate
• Artifical flavor
• Carmel color

Honestly, i almost fainted when i read this. How can something that tastes so good have so many nasty chemicals in it?

Well, i'll go one farther. Someone yesterday brought me a small cake. (Mix up on my BD, which is next month.) Very sweet, & i appreciate the thought. I can't of course eat it being gluten free, but again i thought it most kind to be remembered.

But on the cake container, right under my nose was the ingredient list:

• Sugar
• Enriched bleached flour (bleached wheat flour, niacin, reduduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid)
• Water
• Soybean oil
• Eggs
• Egg whites
• Modified corn starch

Contains 2% or less of:

• Nonfat milk
• salt
• Leavening (sodium acid pyrophosphate)
• Vital wheat gluten
• Sorbitan monosterate
• Mono & diglycerides
• Polysorbate 60
• Sodium stearoyl
• Lactylate
• Dextrose
• Propylene glycol
• citric acid
• Artificial & natural flavors
• sodium propionate
• Sorbic acid
• Benzoic acid
• Methylparaben
• Propylparaben
• Alpha tocopherol
• BHT (preservatives)

Contains: Wheat, milk eggs.

Please, someone explain to me why anyone seeing such a list would eat the darn thing? Granted, i don't buy this stuff generally. But have we become so accepting of the junk as a society that you can read a list of chemicals like that & think that it is normal & ok to eat it????????

No wonder we have such major health issues in this country.

(Images from Google.)

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