Whole Wheat Bread

I grew up with a Mom who made 12 loaves of bread by hand, each week.  I grew to hate homemade bread because it was heavy with a hard crust (she added too much flour and baked it too long).  As I was growing up and earned a degree in foods, I learned a lot about how things work when it came to making good food, especially bread.  Now I have friends who come over so that I can teach them how to make my yummy wheat bread. Be aware that is this is NOT 100% whole wheat, because I am using hard red wheat to grind my own flour, it is too heavy to make great 100% whole wheat bread.  For yummy 100% whole wheat bread use the hard white wheat flour. Plus I am using my Mom’s recipe with one addition. ;} Here we go.

Step 1:

Supplies:  For one 1 lb. loaf of bread (what I used is in parentheses)
1 cup fluid (warm water)
1 Tbs. fat (olive oil)
1 Tbs. sweet (honey)
2-3 cups flour (½ whole wheat {I ground myself} ½ white)
1 tsp. salt
2 tsp. yeast
2 Tbs. gluten
Measuring cups
Measuring spoons
Nonstick cooking spray
Bread mixer (you can do this my hand)
Bread pans (since I am quadrupling this, 4-1 lb. pans or 3-1.5 lb. pans)

Comments

[jessyratfink]

You you for posting this! I've been trying to learn how to make bread for a little bit now and this has been my most successful attempt at regular wheat bread to date. :D I'm eating it right now with a little fake butter and honey and it's wonderful!

I think I underbaked it a little (my serious problem with bread :P ) but I can't wait to try again!

[craftknowitall]

Glad I can be of service. Under baking could be a problem of your oven. Next time add 5 more minutes. As a baker, you learn how your oven works and take that into consideration as you bake. Thanks for commenting.

[gimpyinindy]

Your Bread is my 1st view after becoming a member. Where did you get the bread pans? Thanx

[craftknowitall]

When my mother-in-law died, I inherited them. They are 1.5 lb. aluminum loaf pans. I really don’t know where to look because I haven’t needed to. Maybe you should search the web. Thanks for looking and commenting.

[susanchen2011]

I think it will be good for losing weight.