Kansas Whole Wheat Bread
Made from fresh home grown, home-milled whole wheat flour, this Kansas Whole Wheat Bread recipe is the one you have to have in our recipe collection. Perfect taste, unbelievable texture and as healthy as can be.
Servings: 3 Loaves
Ingredients
- 5 cups Whole Wheat flour
- ½ cup Vital Wheat gluten adds a chew to the bread. If you cannot find this, add ½ cup more flour
- 1 cup Quick cooking oats
- 1 teaspoon Salt
- 4 tablespoon Active dry yeast
- 2 cups Warm water
- ½ cup Honey
- ⅓ cup Vegetable oil
Instructions
- In a glass measuring cup, whisk together yeast, honey, water, oil and salt. Let rest for about 10 minutes.
- Add rest of the ingredients to the bowl of a stand mixer or a deep mixing bowl. Add the wet ingredients to it. Knead until the dough is smooth and elastic. The time will depepnd on if you are kneading by hand or using a stand mixer. Make sure that the kneaded dough is not "tacky".
- Cover the bowl with a kitchen towel and put it in a warm spot to rise until doubled. It took me about 2 hours.
- Grease three loaf pans and set them aside.
- When doubled, turn the dough out onto a floured surface and divide into 3 portions.
- Take each portion and shape it roughly into a rectangle. using a rolling pin, roll out to the width of your loaf pan and length close to three times the width.
- Loosely roll up, tuck the ends underneath and put in your preapared loaf pan. Repeat with the other two portions.
- Put the loaf pans in a warm spot for a second rise and allow to rise until doubled, about an hour.
- Preheat the oven at 325 degrees F or 163 degrees C.
- Bake the loaves for 45 minutes. Brush the hot breads out of the oven with melted butter.
- Resist the urge to cut into a warm loaf. Good luck!!!