Cracked Wheat Oatmeal Bread
A healthy, whole-grain bread.
Cracked Wheat Oatmeal Bread
Ingredients
- 1 1/4 tablespoon yeast
- 1/2 cup warm water
- 1 cup lowfat milk or soy milk
- 1 3/4 cups boiling water
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup cracked wheat
- 3/4 cup oatmeal
- 2 1/2 cups white flour
- 3 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
Instructions
- Soak cracked wheat in 3/4 cups boiling water and let it cool.
- Mix 1 cup boiling water, milk, salt, and sugar and allow it to cool to a lukewarm temperature.
- Mix yeast in warm water and let stand until foamy.
- Add to milk mixture. Add cooled cracked wheat and oatmeal and mix well.
- Gradually add flours and mix until you have a stiff dough.
- Let the dough rise in an oiled bowl until it doubles in size (about 1 1/2 hours). Punch the dough down and let it rise again until doubled (about an hour).
- Separate into loaves and place them in greased loaf pans. Let them rise again until doubled (about 45 minutes).
- Bake at 400° F for about 40 minutes. Remove bread from pans and cool on wire racks.
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Denise Dill
Denise Dill is a co-op livin', garden diggin', homegrown cookin' fool who creates soups of song out of local ingredients. She's currently working as a baker and soup maker while she completes culinary school. In the past, she worked as an urban gardener and community cooking educator. She has also toured the country as a folk musician, opening for such acts as Pamela Means and Hamell on Trial.
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Where do I get cracked wheat
My guess is two, but it would depend on the size of your pans.
How many loaves does this make?