2 cups warm water
3 tsp yeast
6 Tbsp butter
1/2 cup honey (spilling over)
a splash of molasses (optional)
1 1/2 tsp salt
2 Tbsp milled flax seed (optional-for those trendy omega 3's)
5 cups hard red wheat (King Arther brand)
Yields 2 loafs.
Dissolve yeast in water. Add all the other ingredients except for one cup of the flour. Knead in that last cup of flour (about 5 minutes). Let rise till double in size (1 1/2 hours in the summer, 2 hours in the winter), punch down then divide in two and squish down into two generously buttered loaf pans and let rise again, 45min-1 hour). bake together for 27 minutes at 330. (My oven runs hot)
We enjoy the sweet honey taste and heavy, chewy texture of this bread. Now, if it would just curb my appitite for cookie dough...
5 comments:
Look at you going all healthy with your flax seed!! =) Actually, I like wheat bread...it's the rest of my crew that has issues...
Yay! I've been meaning to get your tested-and-perfected recipe for a long time. Now I'm going to finally try it and someday I will be an awesome homemade-bread-only mom. :)
Do you mix it in a mixer or my hand? I'm actually getting better with the bread thing and might have to try this.
I don't follow the 'rules' of breadmaking. I throw all the ingrediants together and mix it by hand and probably don't knead it enough, and I don't roll it out between rises. I just dump and squish! But that's why I love this bread -- it's very forgiving! Just don't use too much flour or you'll have a dry bread.
Karen - it took months to convert my family!
SandyKay - You would be TOO awesome if you also made homemade bread, along with your cloth diapers and homemade sweater dresses...
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