Recipe: Delicious Basic wheat bread

Basic wheat bread. Who says whole wheat bread has to be dense, dry, and tasteless? A simple, easy whole wheat bread recipe posted on request. Whole wheat breads have a reputation for difficulty, some of which is well-deserved.

My crusty, bakery-style, aromatic and yeasty whole wheat bread recipe is must! My Mom put on her apple apron, pulled out the flour containers, and kneaded homemade bread like nobody's business. There was nothing like the smell. You can have Basic wheat bread using 10 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Basic wheat bread

1. It's of Wheat flour.
2. You need of bread flour.
3. Prepare of Bread flour (reserve for if needed).
4. You need of granulated sugar (reserve about 1 tsp).
5. It's of olive oil.
6. You need of milk (1%, 2%, or whole).
7. You need of Egg at room temperature.
8. Prepare of active dry yeast.
9. It's of Honey (optional and only if you want your bread to be a honey wheat bread).
10. You need of Salt.

This easy recipe for whole wheat bread came to us via an artisan baker in Amsterdam. Hartog Bakery's Whole Wheat Bread Recipe -- Traditional Volkorenbrood. A basic whole wheat yeast sandwich bread recipe. We were out of wheat bread today so thought I'd give it a try.

Basic wheat bread step by step

1. Warm milk (milk should be warm enough that when you stick you finger in it doesn't burn....heat approximately 40 in microwave so milk is about 110-120°).
2. Add envelope of yeast with about a tsp of sugar and let sit for about 5 to 8 min. When it's foamy the yeast has bloomed...(if it didn't bloom then either your milk was NOT warm enough or your yeast was old).
3. To your standing mixer with dough hook add 2 C of wheat flour and 1/4 C of bread flour with 1 tsp salt and 2 TBSP sugar mix together.
4. With mixer on med to med/high (so if your mixer has speeds from 1 to 4 use 3); add 2 TBSP olive oil, 1 egg (slightly beaten) at room temperature, (this is also where you add your 2 TBSP of honey if you want your bread to be honey wheat bread....(NOTE IT DOES NOT MAKE YOUR BREAD SWEET) and pour in your milk mixture and continue mix. If you notice dough is not starting to cling to dough hook then add some of the reserve bread flour from the 1/4 you set aside A LITTLE AT A TIME. ONCE IT STARTS TO CLING DO NOT ADD ANY MORE FLOUR just let it mix till it forms a ball and pulls away from sides of bowl. Dough will be tacky, turn out on floured surface and knead 3 to 4 times and form into a bowl put back into bowl with a little olive oil over top and cover set in a warm dry place till it rises can take from 30 min to 2 hours to rise. Once it doubles in size turn out and roll into a log seam side down and place into a loaf pan and cover again and let rise. Preheat oven to 375° bake for 35 min. R.

This bread was a recipe I just sort of came up with after looking at a wide collection of. The most basic and common use of sliced bread is to use it in a sandwich. A really good whole wheat sandwich that everyone loves is a Vegetable Grilled Sandwich. Making your own wheat bread from scratch can be so much healthier than processed bread. Basic Wheat Bread. by Harlan Harris (adapting a number of wheat-bread recipes for bread machine).