Whole Wheat:
It's Not Just for Breakfast
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Ahem. So, we now....after a long, long, long time....return to the second edition of
Whole Wheat:
It's Not Just for Breakfast
with one of my all-time favorite recipes.
All you do is put these ingredients into your bread machine pan, in the order they are listed:
2/3 cup lukewarm water
2 tablespoons white vinegar
1/2 cup sour cream
1 tablespoon white sugar
1-1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup whole wheat flour, finely ground (for more info on that, go here)
2 cups white flour
2-1/2 teaspoons active dry yeast
Once the ingredients are in the bread machine pan, put the pan in the machine and select the basic or white bread setting. Bake according to your bread machine directions. Check the dough after 5 minutes of initial mixing; add 1-2 tablespoons of water or flour if necessary.)
Here's the all-white variation: use 3 cups white flour (omit whole wheat) and use 2-1/4 teaspoons yeast. Everything else stays the same.
I love to pop this bread into my machine a few hours before dinner, so that we have a hot loaf ready to eat. It is the only proper accompaniment to soup.
The only downside to this recipe is that, because you make it in a bread machine, you can only make one loaf at a time. If anyone out there knows how to adapt a bread machine recipe to a multi-loaf, baked in the oven bread recipe, please let me know!
Enjoy!
I don't have a bread maker. So - I doubled your recipe, mixed the wet ingredients first (up to/not including salt), added two cups of flour, mixed, then added the rest of the flour a cup at a time until it was dough - really stiff dough. I let it rise, punched down and made two round loaves that I let rise again. Baked a 350 for around 20 minutes - they were great - but small loaves, I wonder if they would have risen more with a little more water or if I had mixed it differently in the beginning - maybe add the yeast to the warm water and then add the rest of the ingredients? Anyway - it worked! Good bread. Thanks for the recipe
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