Bread Baking - New Recipe!

Mike's mom, Jeanette, passed this recipe on to me a few weeks back and I finally had time this Friday to test it out.  She said she was given the recipe when she attended a cooking class in Skagway way back when they lived there!

My Kitchen Aid bowl was almost not big enough, do they make larger bowls?  I think I need one!

Dissolve 2 TBS (2 pkgs) yeast with 1/2 cup warm water.
Set aside.

Blend 8 TBS Honey

3 1/2 cup warm water

4 cup wheat flour

Add yeast to blended mixture and Beat with mixer for 3-5 minutes.
This is called sponging.

Let this set for 1 hour.

Add 2/3 cup oil

3 tsp salt

6 cup wheat flour gradually

 

knead out with white flour. Let rest for 5-10 minutes.

 

shape into loaves and let raise until double

bake in 375-400 degree oven for approx. 20-30 minutes.

makes 4 loaves

These turned out awesome!  They weren't as dense as my other wheat bread recipes, nice and moist and not at all doughy.  VERY good.  I will make this again next week!  Thank you Jeanette!

Baking Bread

We go thru A LOT of bread!

It seems like my kiddos really prefer to only eat bread and fruit these days, although, I make them try other things at dinner time, and then use dinner rolls as my leverage to get them to eat 'that other stuff' they're not too keen on.

Wednesday was my 'baking bread day,' nothing else really got done around here, it was a sort of crazy day, bread baking, laundry piling up, etc. At least I made some pizza for dinner, but I had to run to the store to pick up sauce and cheese - on the sauce note - I'm going to attempt in the future to make and can my own spaghetti/pizza sauce and will post later.

What you'll see is that not every loaf is the same, as I have so many distractions, some loaves of bread have risen more than others, and I have two different loaf pan sizes: 9x5 and 8x4.

I hate to waste anything - so after I sliced all my bread, I kept the bread crumbs and put them in an old Adams Peanut Butter Jar.

mmm... Pizza for dinner!