Whole wheat bread
Oh how I love fresh homemade bread and oh how I love a bread machine that does most of the work for me! Homemade bread is a 100 times better for you than store bought, 100 times better tasting and much cheaper too! I don’t buy bread at the store at all now. I bake a loaf or two each week for my family. This is my favorite wheat recipe from the Amish Mennonite cookbook (with a few changes). It’s got a great taste and is good for slicing for sandwiches.
Whole Wheat Bread
½ cup lukewarm water ¼ cup oil
½ teaspoon sugar 1/8 cup of honey
1 tablespoon yeast 1 cup hot water
½ tablespoon salt 1 cup whole wheat flour
¼ cup sugar 1 ½ cups of unbleached bread flour
Bread Machine
Put all liquid ingredients (water, oil and honey) in first, and then add flours, sugar, and salt. Add yeast last. Be careful that yeast does not touch liquid. Set on whole wheat setting, 1 pound loaf.
By hand
Mix 1/2 cup lukewarm water, 1 teaspoon sugar, and yeast; set aside. Beat together salt, ¼ cup of sugar, oil and honey, and 1 cups hot water, then add whole wheat flour. Now mix the two mixtures together. Mix well. Then add bread four and mix by hand until it won’t stick to the bowl much anymore. Let the dough sit to rise until double in size and put in pans. Let dough rise in pans until about ½ inch higher than the pan. Bake in 2 greased bread pans at 300 for 30-35 minutes. Brush with butter when baked.