I thought I would share this wheat bread recipe, it's was pretty good. Normally when I try a new recipe or want to cook something new I watch several different videos, and read different recipes then I get an idea of the chemistry and try to wing it with my own flair.
In this recipe I happened to have some barley on hand, I ground it in a food processor and replaced some of the wheat in the recipe with the barley powder.
One bread I seem to have trouble making is white bread. I made one that was pretty good but it took hours and hours.
Here's how the bread looked : )
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I think this is the recipe I settled on. Except in one loaf I added the barley powder and in the other loaf just wheat, for experiment purposes. I also put butter on one when it came out of the oven. I heard if you do that it will soften it that is why one is darker.
Recipe:
In a measure cup fill it with water 1 1/3 cup at 105 degrees.
lightly sprinkle a packet of dried yeast in it then stir it in.
add 1.5 tbsp of brown sugar to it and stir.
In a bowl
3 cups wheat flour
1tsp salt
1.5 tbsp brown sugar
2tbsp oats
1tbsp sunflower seeds
1tbsp sesame seeds
1tbsp flax seeds
Mix with a wooden spoon or spatula
add 3tbsp melted butter stir in
pour in the yeast mix
stir with wooden spoon
then use your hands and work it for a few seconds till it is all mixed in
let it sit in the bowl 1 hr
then oil bread pan
punch down the dough and fold it a little bit,
shape it and put it in the pan
let rise 20 minutes
Heat oven to 400
on lower rack put a pan with some water so it steams the oven
bake at 400 for 35 minutes