I have been playing around with my wheat bread recipe over the - TopicsExpress

Beth Jewell

I have been playing around with my wheat bread recipe over the last several months, and finally have a combination of ingredients I am happy with! Thought Id share the recipe with you! The secret ingredient is the Guar Gum. It has drastically improved the texture of the bread! The bread made without it is crumbly, breaks apart easily, and has a coarse texture; the bread made with the guar gum has a wonderfully soft texture, does not crumble, and is so much easier to slice! There are several other things that I could have added instead of the Guar Gum that would do the same thing, but some of them are soy-based, which we want to avoid for their estrogenic properties. 2 cups water (100-110 degrees F) 2 1/2 Tbs yeast 6 eggs (or 12 egg whites, which we use) 1/4 cup olive oil 3/4 Tbs salt 3/8 cup honey 3 1/2 cups whole wheat flour 3 cups white/whole wheat flour (same as whole wheat, just ground finer) 2 cups oat flour 1 Tbs guar gum Mix flours and guar gum and set aside. In separate bowl, add yeast to water and stir thoroughly. Add eggs (or egg whites), oil, salt, and honey; blend well. Add flour. Turn onto floured surface; knead for 8 minutes. Rise 45 minutes. Punch down, and rise for 45 minutes. Form into 3 loaves; let rise for 30-45 minutes. Bake for 40 minutes at 350 F (see comments below before deciding bake time). P.S. -- I found by trial and error the perfect cozy place for letting the bread rise! I put the dough into a greased bowl, covered with a towel, into the unheated oven with the oven light on. I do this for the first 2 rises; for the last rise, I put the loaf pans in the unheated oven without the towel covering them. When they are done rising, I just turn the oven on to 350 F. Since there is a preheat time, I factored this into my final bake time. Normally, the bake time would be 30 minutes, but since we like brown loaves and it takes a little bit to preheat, we bake them for 40 minutes. It also helps me to have the formed/rising loaves in the pans already in the oven when I turn the heat on -- Ive had many loaves fall on their way to the oven before! :D

Posted on: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 17:18:49 +0000

I have been playing around with my wheat bread recipe over the - TopicsExpress

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