Favorite Bread
Source of Recipe
Mai
List of Ingredients
3 cups Gold Medal better for bread wheat flour
1 cup unbleached flour
1 cup wheat bran
1 cup oat bran
1 cup assorted seeds and grain, sesame, poppy, barley, etc.
1/2 - 1 cup sunflower seeds (spread on dry surface and roll with rolling pin just enough to break them, not crush them)
3 Tbs. canola oil
4 Tbs. honey
2 Tbs. molasses
1 cup skim milk
2 cups water
2 tsp. salt
4 tsp. dry yeast
Recipe
Mix all liquid ingredients in a medium saucepan heat until warm. Turn off heat and add dry yeast, but do not stir. After it has sat for 5 mins. stir until mixed. While waiting for the liquids (5 mins. ) mix all of your dry ingredients together, form a well in the middle, gradually add and stir with wooden spoon. Keep an extra cup of warm water near, add if needed. Dough must stay moist and sticky-not dry. Pour mixture onto a dry floured surface and knead for 5 mins. Add flour as needed, but dough must stay soft. Form a large ball and divide in two pieces. Shape into loaves and place into regular size loaf pans. Let rise for 1-1 1/2 hrs. Bake at 375 for 45 mins. or until pulling away from sides. Do not raise the dough 2 times. Also do not preheat oven.
This is a dense bread, but very moist. Try it fresh from the oven with spreadable honey. It's the best I have found so far because of it's moistness. Most whole wheat breads come out dry and hard.
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