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Bread Making

Whole Wheat Bread Recipe (3 loaves)

Ingredients

  • 3 cups whole wheat flour
  • 3 500mg Vitamin C tablets
  • 4 cups water
  • ½ cup sugar or honey
  • ½ cup powdered milk
  • ½ cup oil
  • 2 Tbsp instant yeast
  • ½ cup gluten
  • 2 Tbsp salt
  • Rest of whole wheat flour

Helpful Tools

  • Heavy-duty mixer
  • Bread Pans

Preparation

  1. Grind 6 cups wheat kernels (makes 9 1/2 to 10 cups of flour).
  2. Grind three 500mg vitamin C tablets (break in half).
  3. Mix the following ingredients until smooth:
    • 4 cups water
    • ½ cup sugar or honey
    • ½ cup powdered milk
    • ½ cup oil
    • 3 cups whole wheat flour
  4. Add the following ingredients and then mix for two minutes:
    • 2 Tbsp instant yeast
    • ½ cup gluten
  5. Add the following ingredients:
    • 2 Tbsp salt
    • Rest of whole wheat flour
  6. Mix ingredients (Heavy-duty mixer for 10-12 minutes or Knead by hand for 15 minutes).
  7. Preheat oven to 150 degrees (warm setting). When it’s preheated, turn it off.
  8. Put dough onto oiled counter, roll into a log, and cut into three equal parts.
  9. Roll dough into loaves, as if you’re rolling up a sleeping bag, and plop into sprayed bread pans, seam side down.
  10. Put pans in oven (make sure it’s warm, but turned off). Let rise for 45-60 minutes.
  11. Turn oven to 350 degrees, and bake for 25 minutes.
  12. Remove from pans, butter tops, and let cool.