5 cups white flour
2 cups whole wheat flour
2 packages dry yeast
2 3/4 cups water
1 Tbs salt
4 Tbs (1/2 stick) butter OR margarine
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup honey
1/4 cup molasses
- Place 3 1/2 cups white flour and yeast in a large mixing bowl. Use electric mixer to mix, low.
- In a large saucepan on the stove, combine water, salt, butter, brown sugar, honey, and molasses. Gradually heat until 115-120 degrees (warm, but NOT hot). Use candy thermometer, or when place some on wrist, "warm, but not hot" --Mom. *Visually, the butter will have melted into the liquid.
- Pour liquid into the flour mixture, and mix well (start low, and work way to 1 minute on medium).
- Once well mixed, throw in wheat flour (AND 1/2 cup "dough enhancer" if you have it), and mix until well mixed throughout.
- Start adding the remaining flour and mix with electric mixer; once it is too tough to mix with mixer, stir, and then kneed in the rest of the flour, on a well-floured surface. Kneed until it looks like "a good dough".
- Grease a big bowl, and flip dough ball inside, and coat the ball with the grease in the bowl (grease with butter wrapper). Cover with light cloth, and set in a warm area to rise UNTIL IT DOUBLES (can take 1-2 hours; depends on the day/place).
- Once doubled, PUNCH DOWN into the dough (still in bowl), and then flip onto a floured surface. Cut into 3 loaves (depending on pan size) on a cutting board. Cover (right on the board) with a light cloth for 20 minutes.
- Meanwhile: grease bread pans well, and add dough to pans after 20 minutes. You must shape each into a loaf of bread first, and grease down all the edges.
- Again, cover each with cloth and place in warm area. Once it doubles, it is ready to bake.
- Bake at 375 degrees for about 30-50 minutes (until dark brown/depends on oven).
- Take them out--loosen edges if necessary--and flip onto cooling wrack. Butter over the top if you'd like, and then wait until completely cooled until bagging.
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