Abby's Wheat Bread

OK, people, here is how I make my wheat bread. Abby taught me some new techniques and my bread turned out better than ever and yours will too!

First, this is my wheat grinder that the "kids" gave me for Christmas! I love it, you can come over and grind wheat any ole time! You can see the wheat in the top and then the wheat magically appears in the tub at the bottom. Very nice.



To the bread, here is what you'll need:



First get 5 c. of nice hot water, it should be about 105 degrees.



Dump it into your bowl. Add 2/3 c. oil.



Add 2/3 c. honey (You do the oil first so that the honey just come sliding out, sweet).



Pour in 3 T. yeast.



And give the bowl a turn, use the pulse setting. Do you love that action photo!



Next add 6 c. whole wheat, 2 T. salt, 1 1/2 T. Dough enhancer (I am still not sold on this stuff but I put it in because Abby told me to).



Now, here comes the new technique: Keep pulsing and add the flour about a cup at a time.



This was about 3 or 4 cups of flour. Keep pulsing and adding flour, it is not ready yet.



Perfect! Stop adding flour. This was about 7 more cups of flour on this day. What you want is for the dough to start to pull away from the sides of the bowl, like this:



Then you let it mix on #1 (This is using a Bosch Mixer) for about 10 min., to knead the dough.

After 10 min., put some oil on your counter, dump out your dough, it will be soft and lovely. Separate it into 5 balls like this:



Here is how I make my loaves. I flatten out my ball into a rectangle, then fold the bottom end up.



Then I fold the top end down and seal it with my little finger tips a bit, see the little holes? Their mine.



Next fold the right end over.



Then the left end over.



Turn the loaf over and round it under the sides to get the shape you want, like this:



Spray your pans with Pam, or the fancy stuff in my picture at the top and put your pretty little loaves into the pans.



Next let them rise. I turn my oven on to warm up for less than 1 min., and put my loaves in there to rise. Now the waiting game, it is hard to wait but you must for nice fluffy loaves of bread.



They're done! Once your loaves are poofing up over the edge, they are ready to bake. It can take 20 min., 30 min., 40 min, you just never know, thus the waiting game.



Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.

Put those loaves in and let them bake for 25 to 30 min. I really varies from oven to oven but . . . .

Tadaaaaaa. . . . . . . HOMEMADE BREAD . . . . . . Yeah!

Here is it with butter smeared across the top.



Now it is out of the pans and ready to eat!



Whole Wheat Bread:

5 c. hot water
2/3 c. oil
2/3 c. honey
3 T. yeast
12 - 14 c. whole wheat flour
2 T. salt
1 1/2 T. dough enhancer

Mix water, oil, honey and yeast. Add 6 c. of flour, the salt and dough enhancer. Mix until slightly blended, Add remaining flour until dough pulls off bowl. Then mix on low for 10 min. Shape into 5 loaves. Let raise for 20 min. Bake 350 degrees for 25 to 30 min.