Thursday, July 9, 2009

Old Fashioned Whole Wheat Bread

OK so I have been on a bread baking kit recently. My sister will more than likely look at me and say there is nothing easy about bread. However I have always found this Whole Wheat recipe to be easy, tasty and looking at the ingredients very healthy. All valuable things in making bread. So I hope that you get as much enjoyment from it as I have.

Ingredients:

1 packet yeast or 1 Tbsp and 1 tsp of yeast from a bag
1/3 cup lukewarm water
1 Tbsp olive oil
1 Tbsp honey
1 Tbsp molasses
1 Tbsp salt
3 cups scalded milk
6 cups whole wheat flour

Directions:

In a small cup add water and yeast. Stir. Allow to soften or flower as some people call it. Mostly it is just dissolving and growing a little. Next combine oil, honey, molasses, salt, and scalded milk. Cool to Lukewarm and add yeast mixture. Add flour as needed. Shape into 2 loaves and place in greased loaf tins. Let rise to not quite double in bulk (1-2 hours). Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour and 10 minutes. Makes 2 medium size loaves.

Below is my daughter helping me roll out the dough to get rid of air bubbles before I shaped it. Really I rolled it first and then let her feel like she was helping.
Cute picture though.

1 comment:

handygal said...

I think that I actually want to try this now with 1/2 the time and see if it makes it a little less dry and more something my daughter would enjoy as well.