Sanni's Oat Bread
List of Ingredients
I love this bread and I'm proud of it because it my first succeed in copying a bakery recipe.I hope you like as well:Recipe
4 cups unbleached bread flour
1-1/2 cups quick cooking oatmeal
½ to3/4 cup oat kernels, soaked about 24 hours and boiled 1 hour if you like them really soft
2 tbsp. honey
1 tbsp. oil or soft butter
2-1/4 tsp. yeast
1-1/2 tsp. salt
1 to 1-1/2 cups warm water* or milk
egg white for brushing if desired
· I use the soaking water from the oat kernels.
Mix flour (saving about ½ cup), oats, yeast and salt in a large bowl.Add oat kernels, drained, honey, butter and water (I add the liquid in bread recipes very gradually since I’ve made the experience that most American recipes are too wet for German flour).Mix with a wooden spoon until sticking together, turn out on a working surface and knead, adding the remaining flour if necessary.Knead about 5 minutes, then shape into a ball, put ball in a greased bowl, turn once to coat and let rise in a warm place about 1 hour.
You can make the dough with a dough hood of a hand mixer or a machine if you want and I think it’ll work in a bread machine as well.I make it by hand as I love to feel a dough and I need to feel it otherwise I never get the right consistence.
Once dough is risen turn out of bowl, punch down and divide in two equal parts.Roll each part into a oval or rectangle about 1/3 inch thick.Spray with a little water.Roll each part up jelly-roll style and put in a greased 8 by 4 inch loaf pan.I would always use this “treatment” for loaf bread as I’ve made the experience that they rise higher this way and the crumb is more even.
Put in a 400° oven, throw some ice cubes on oven bottom.Reduce heat to 360° and bake for about 35 minutes.If you want them looking shiny brush with egg white before baking.
After baking remove from pans and let cool on a wire rack.
Hope you like this one:0)
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