Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Wheat Bread

Annee- here is the wheat bread recipe I originally used from the wheat grinder recipe:
100% WHOLE WHEAT BREAD
5 C warm water
2/3 C oil
2/3 C honey
2 Tbs. salt
2 Tbs. tofu drink mix (optional)
2 Tbs. SAF instant yeast
2 Tbs. Vital Wheat Gluten
2 Tbs. Dough Enhancer
10-12 C freshly milled wheat flour

In your mixing bowl, put water, 5 cups of wheat flour, oil, honey, yeast, gluten, dough enhancer, and tofu. Mix on speed 1 until combined. Then add approximagely 5 more cups of flour and salt. Mix, and continue to add flour 1/4 cup at a time until the dough pulls away from the sides of the bowl. Then knead for another 4-5 minutes. The dough should feel soft, not rainy. Form it into loaves and place in pans. Let rise until double in size. Bake at 350 for 30min or until the top is golden brown. (makes 6-8 1lb loaves)

*** due to lack of ingredients, I omitted th etofu, gluten and enhancer. because of this, I did 1/2 white, 1/2 wheat. The bread tasted great. Maybe it'd be even better following the directions:)

MELINDA- correct me if I'm wrong, but rumor has it you have said the gluten and dough enhancer is not necessary when using fresh wheat???

2 comments:

Jan Hawkes said...

I think what Melinda said was freshly ground wheat, rather than fresh wheat. Not sure why that makes a difference, actually.

Jan Hawkes said...
This comment has been removed by the author.