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In article . com>,
"Doug Freyburger" > wrote:

> OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote:
> >
> > Is there such a thing?

>
> I occasionally find all-rye rye bread in stores, and I
> regularly find all-corn tortillas in stores. So there
> should be such a thing. I've had an occasional bite
> of cormbread that didn't give me the usual indigestion
> that anything with wheat in it does, but not often
> enough that I remember where.
>
> > Is it possible to make cornbread with just cornmeal and no other grain?

>
> The gluten from the wheat is used to feed the yeast
> to raise the dough, so you'd need some other method of
> making it puffy. Sodium carbonate based baking soda.
> Fizz the dough up and use really finely ground cornmeal.
>


The Atkins bake mixes use plain soda water to "raise" the dough in both
the bread and the pancake recipes.

I'll be playing with this stuff for sure. ;-)

I'm not opposed tho' to a "dense" cornbread.

Cheers!
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Om.

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