Thanks, Karen! I'm going to a special bakery this morning to get cranberry buns for a friend. If they have hot-out-of-the-oven bread I'll have to buy a loaf after all this bread talk.

Thanks, James. Use that bread machine!?

I will. My brother said I have to buy pans with high edges so my bread doesn't collapse while it bakes. I think a lot of the other stuff is the same.

I bet you can find a good recipe with directions that will give you the texture without the gluten. Let me know after you've tried one, Jenny!

I'm so glad you connected with this, stillalife. Thanks for reading!

Thanks, Rick! I love it when you talk rhetorical devices!

You've never tried a hot cross bun? No! Well you are lucky because they are (traditionally) only eaten at Easter (although the supermarkets have had them on the shelves for months here in Australia). They are, in my opinion, best on Good Friday, hot, cut in half and smothered in butter. Don't be tempted by the fruit free or choc chip ones either.

Great post by the way. I will definitely be thinking of bread as I jump into my next lot of revisions.