Our Daily (Wheat) Bread

I’m calling it with this as the house wheat bread. I’ll admit- my first loaf with this recipe version was pure disaster. Worst. Loaf. Ever. Clearly not mixed and practically a pudding on the inside. But you know what they say- it’s always darkest before the dawn. And dawn means sun rise. And our golden rise was courtesy of Prairie  Gold.

I had been playing with this whole wheat bread recipe. And I have to say I haven’t loved it. Still very dense and not a great rise. Maybe that would improve over time though. This weekend we went to HochStetler’s Country Store and I picked up a bag of Prairie Gold 100% Whole Wheat. I modified the recipe noted above to the following and it. is. lovely. Try it!

Ingredients

• 4 ¼ cups Prairie Gold 100% whole-wheat flour
• ½ teaspoon salt
• ½ cup scalded skim milk
• 1 cup cool tap water
• ¼ cup warmed honey
• 2 tablespoons salted butter
• 2 ¼ teaspoons yeast ( I used 1 rapid rise packet and the whole wheat rapid setting for the pictured loaf)

Instructions

1. Follow your bread machine’s directions for making a whole-wheat or whole-wheat rapid loaf depending on your yeast. I think next time I’ll change out myskim milk for buttermilk.