Whole Wheat Bread
My colleague gave me this recipe the other day and I couldn’t wait to try it!!! Thank you Caitlin !! Good thing since, I was running low on bread for my husband’s lunch sandwiches. I decided instead of stopping at the store on the way home from work, I would give this recipe a try. I think if you try this recipe you will love it . Really the instructions are very simple and all you need is a little time for the bread to ferment. The end result will be worth the wait!
Ingredients:
2 cup of bread flour ( use a spoon to scoop the flour into the measuring cup**** do not pack the flour*****
2 cups of warm water
1/2 tsp of salt
1 TB of sugar or honey
1 TB of dry yeast
Mix the above ingredients together in a bowl and let ferment overnight or while you are at work (8 to 12 hours). I did let mine sit for 12 hours.
Make sure to cover the liquid mixture with plastic wrap while resting.
After mixture has fermented for allotted time (see picture below)
Add:
2 Cups of whole wheat flour plus any additional you will need for kneading.
Knead for 2 to 4 minutes by hand (until dough is no longer sticky). Preheat oven to 500 degrees.
Shape dough to form in a bread loaf pan. I used a 8″ pan. Make sure to spray the pan with Pam or cooking spray.
Place the dough in the pan and cover once again for about an hour to 2 hours until the dough doubles (mine only took an hour). The secret is to having the oven preheat while the dough rise!!! This will cut the time for rising in half.
Once the dough doubles remove the plastic wrap and place the bread in the oven, cover with foil for 20 minute.
After 20 minutes have elapsed remove the foil and decrease the oven to temperature to 400 degrees and bake for an additional 20 minutes.
Let the bread sit in pan for 5 minutes and then cool on wire rack. Enjoy !
