100% Whole Wheat Bread

I am not a fancy baker. I was not raised in a family where my mom taught me how to knead dough. Luckily, I have a bread machine-yay!

So it is nearly impossible to find a tasty bread that is 100% whole wheat.  Most 100% whole wheat bread is super dense and let’s face it, unpleasant. I finally found a great recipe that doesn’t taste like health food bread. My whole family loves it. And the best part is that you can personalize it in so many ways.

I love bread  machines, but there are some flaws with mine. The paddle  that kneads the dough is collapsable, and because of this it tends to leave a hole in my bread. So personally I would not recommend the bread-man. But I would recommend a bread machine. It literally does all the work for you. You just put your ingredients in a specific order (depending on the bread machine you have), and go about your day 🙂

I went through an everything bagel seasoning mix phase…that was awesome. Lately I have been throwing in sunflower seeds. I am really liking the play on different textures.

The best part, when you come home it smells like you are walking into a patisserie. It is the best thing ever.

Ingredients

1. 4 1/4 cups whole wheat flour
2. 1 ½ cups of lukewarm water (if it’s too hot it will kill the yeast)
3. 1 packet of instant yeast
4. 1 ½ tsp of salt (keep it away from the yeast when preparing. It interferes with the yeast)
5. ¼ cup of honey
6. 3 tablespoons of oil of choice/butter

Directions

Place ingredients in bread machine in the correct order. Mine says wet first then add the dry. But each one is different

Then add any spices that you like with the dry ingredients. Or nuts/seeds/dried fruits…go crazy, that’s the best part!

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100% Whole Wheat Bread with a bread machine

SO it is nearly impossible to find a tasty bread that is 100% whole wheat. I have got the best bread recipe. My whole family loves it. And the best part is that you can personalize it in so many ways. I went through an everything bagel seasoning mix phase...that was awesome. Lately I have been throwing in sunflower seeds. I am really liking the play on different textures.

Author: Rochelle Stivers

Cuisine: american

Recipe type: bread

Serves: 2 lb loaf

Prep time:  5 mins

Cook time:  4 hours

Total time:  4 hours 5 mins

Ingredients

• 4¼cups whole wheat flour
• 1 ½ cups of lukewarm water (if it's too hot it will kill the yeast)
• 1 packet of instant yeast
• 1 ½ tsp of salt (keep it away from the yeast when preparing. It interferes with the yeast)
• ¼ cup of honey
• 3 tablespoons of oil of choice/butter

Instructions

1. Place ingredients in the bread machine following the manufacturers instruction. Each bread machine is different.
2. Mine calls for putting liquid ingredients in first.
3. Just make sure the water is not too hot, and that the salt and the yeast stay apart when placing ingredients in the bread machine.

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