Mock Pumpernickel - In the Slow Cooker~gluten free

Often I hear that Celiac's lament that most gf breads have very little fibre.  This bread should take care of that!  This is a very dense bread that you slice into very thin slices.

Tastes just like old fashioned dark rye pumpernickel!
I will include changes at the end if you wish to use cooked rice instead of buckwheat groats.
Ingredients

1 cup buckwheat groats
3/4 cup cornmeal
2 cups boiling water
Mix together, cover and soak overnight

3/4 cup plus 9 tablespoons brown rice flour (can use white)
1/4 cup yellow corn flour (not corn meal)(or other gf flour)
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
2 tablespoons corn syrup or molasses
1 tablespoon cooking oil
Stir together the dry ingredients. In a small dish mix the syrup and oil.
Mix all the ingredients into the cooled buckwheat/cornmeal water mixture that has soaked overnight. Mix well with a spoon.
Grease a 9" x 5" loaf pan. Line the bottom with greased foil.
Put dough into pan. Cover pan tightly with foil.
Place in large oblong slowcooker. Cover. Cook on High for 6 hours.
Cool. Remove from loaf pan. Place in plastic bag in fridge overnight.
Slice into 1/4" slices with a greased knife.  Slice and freeze.
If you have a round slow cooker- use a round metal pan that fits inside.
Changes for "Mock Rice Pumpernickel"
Substitute :

• 1 cup cooked brown rice for the buckwheat. Soak One Hour instead of overnight.
• Add 1/2 teaspoon guar gum and 2 tablespoons cocoa powder to the dry ingredients.
• Use cornstarch instead of cornflour

Let cool completely.  Store in plastic bag.  Slice thin.

Barb's Green Relish

Neighbor Barb also gave me her great recipe for Green Relish.  The first time I made it I was suprised that it didn't look like store bought relish although it tasted like it.  I had some food colour in the pantry that I had purchased for adding to the kids homemade playdoh and luckily it was green. This was many years ago when I had young kids and everyone I knew made their own playdoh instead of buying it...... I added just a tiny bit and stirred it through.  It looked great - just like store bought.  I want to make this recipe again but the last two years we did not put in a garden.  My son and daughter-in-law have a large garden and are harvesting lots of cucumbers.  That is why I dug out these two recipes.  They gave me enough cukes to make dills, but I will have to hint that I would like enough to make a few jars of relish too.
Barb's Green Relish -makes 4 quarts
Ingredients:
10 4" cucumbers (they are just the dills grown too big)- about 1.5 kg
4 medium onions - 900 grams or 2 lbs
400 grams or 14 oz celery
2 red peppers- 1/2 lb or 225 grams
2 green peppers- 1/2 lb or 225 grams
1/4 cup pickling salt (coarse salt)
Put the vegetables through a food processor with blade or use coarse  shredder.  Place in large glass bowl or stainless steel pan.  Sprinkle the pick
ling salt over and put the lid on.
Let sit for 6-8 hours.
Drain well.
Sauce:
In large pot place:
3 cups white sugar
3 cups vinegar
1/2 teaspoon tumeric
1 teaspoon celery seed
1 teaspoon mustard seed
Bring to a boil.  Add vegetables.  Simmer uncovered 30 minutes, stirring occassionally.  This is where you will add the tiny bit of green food colour if you choose.  Seal in clean hot canning (pint) jars.  Place in a boiling water bath for 10 minutes.
Boiling water bath.  Put enough water into your canner that it will cover the jars.  Bring to a boil.  Place the jars into the canner.  Cover and boil for 10 minutes.  Remove jars and place on a towel placed on the counter.  Let cool.  You will hear the delightful "pings" as each jar seals.  If a jar does not seal - do not worry.  Just place it in the fridge to use first.

Barb's Dill Pickles

We have lovely neighbors.  We've been next to each other for 33 years.  When I started gardening and grew pickling cukes- or maybe it's when Barb gave me a bag from her garden - she also gave me her recipe.  Every so often I phone her up and ask once again "do you put these in a boiling water bath?  Or just let the hot jars seal on their own".  After 33 years, I called once again and finally this time wrote it on the recipe card "No Water Bath".  I remember reading all about canning online a few years ago and then everyone was saying you had to put your quarts in a water bath.  The resulting pickles were not nearly as good and crunchy - the way I love them. 
Prepare 2 quart jars by washing them and boiling them or putting them through the dishwasher.  I do the dishwasher method once we moved up to owning one!  The idea is to time the washing of the jars so that they come straight from the dishwasher to the counter to be filled with cucumbers.  Let's back up a bit here..... first the recipe:
Barb's Dill Pickles:
In each hot clean quart jar put: 1 teaspoon pickling spice.
                                               1/4 teaspoon powdered alum
                                               1 clove garlic, peeled.
Fill the jar with scrubbed clean, small pickling cukes.  Right up to the shoulder of the jar. Place one head of dill at the top of the the cukes. 
Liquid:
 in pan on stove put:
3 cups water
1 cup white vinegar
1/4 cup pickling salt (coarse salt or un-iodized salt)
Bring to a boil and pour over cukes in jars.  There is enough liquid to fill two jars.  Place clean hot snap lid on top and screw on lid.  Let cool on counter.  You should hear two snaps indicating both jars have sealed.  Barb had told me not to double the recipe.  Many times I didn't listen thinking "what difference can that make?"  Well, I should listen and so should you if you try this recipe. The pickles turn out way better if you just make two jars at a time.  Let sit for at least a month in you basement cold storage room for the flavour to develope.
Tips: Clean your cucumbers first.  Assemble all your ingredients and supplies next.  Put your jars in the dishwasher, boil the lids and boil the liquid.