Give Us This Day...

our daily bread.

I posted this when my blog was brand new with no traffic or followers a little over a year ago. I'm hoping it's a recipe you will use over and over!

I have been a bread baker for what feels like a gazillion years, making at least 6 loaves a week while feeding our chicks. Now I can make a large batch and share with friends and family and this recipe makes bread that others enjoy! Here is my most requested fast, easy, 3-step recipe.

Easiest Whole Wheat Bread
with Huckleberry Butter

Step 1: Grind 12 cups of hard white or red wheat, finely ground. I use a Magic Mill Grinder that is 36 years old...best ever!

Make sure you have these ingredients on hand. Vital Wheat Gluten binds the dough. It provides added natural protein, increased volume, improved shape and enhances flavor. Dough Enhancer gives this bread a very fine, light texture and preserves moistness. It has a shelf-life of about 3 years. A 21-oz. can contains 4 1/2 cups and makes this recipe 24 times. Both items can be purchased at Wal-mart or through food storage companies.

I really like this brand of Instant yeast.

Step 2: Mix and Knead

Each batch produces 4, (8 x 4-inch) standard size loaves.

• 2/3 cup oil
• 2/3 cup honey, 1 cup sugar, or 1 cup of new Stevia Extract In the Raw
• 1 1/2 Tbsp. salt
• 5 1/2 cups steaming hot water (120-130F)
• 1/2 cup gluten flour
• 3 Tbsp. dough enhancer
• 2 1/2 Tbsp. Instant yeast
• 14-16 cups whole wheat flour

Mix together first four ingredients in mixer with a dough hook. Check the temp of your water and add the yeast. Add 1/2 of the flour and beat. Put in 1-2 more cups of flour, gluten flour, dough enhancer. Beat again. With mixer on medium speed, add remaining flour just until dough pulls away from the sides of the bowl. Knead 6-10 minutes on medium speed.

Step 3: Rise and Bake

Pre-heat oven for 1 minute to LUKE WARM and turn off. Spray or oil pans. Pour dough out onto oiled counter, divide and shape into loaves and put into pans. Let loaves rise 35 minutes in warmed oven. Do not remove bread from oven; turn oven to 350 F. and bake for 30 minutes. Tip out of pans and cool on cooling rack. I like to butter the tops for a softer crust.

If you do not have a mixer with a dough hook and are kneading this by hand, gradually add last cup of flour to keep dough from sticking to counter. You will add more flour when kneading by hand than when using a mixer simply to be able to handle this moist dough. With wheat bread, always add the least amount of flour possible to keep bread moist. Knead 10 minutes before shaping dough into loaves.

Slice...

Plate...

and serve with Huckleberry Butter...yum!

Huckleberry Butter

• 1 cup huckleberry jam (or whatever kind of jam you like)
• 2 cups softened butter
• 1 Tbsp. powdered sugar

Gently fold together to preserve the whole huckleberries, or you can whip it with a mixer if you prefer.

Enjoy all!

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