Wednesday, November 2, 2011

2-Hour Whole Wheat Bread (Shalene)


INGREDIENTS:

3 ½ cups whole wheat flour
⅓ cup gluten flour
1 Tablespoon instant yeast
2 ½ cups steaming hot tap water (as hot as you can get)
2 teaspoons salt
2 teaspoons lecithin
⅓ cup oil
⅓ cup honey or ½ cup sugar
1 ¼ Tablespoon lemon juice
2 ½ cups whole wheat flour

DIRECTIONS:

Preheat oven to 200°
Mix first three ingredients.  Add Water all at once to flour and yeast mixture. Mix 1 minute. Let rest 10 minutes.
Add salt, lecithin, oil, honey or sugar, and lemon juice. Mix 1 minute.
Mix remaining wheat flour one cup at a time. Knead dough for 10 minutes.
Form 2 regular loaves in loaf pans. Turn off oven and place loaves in oven. Let rise.
When loaves have risen to double, turn oven back on and back at 350° for 30 minutes.

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