A great everyday bread, best for toast, or served with soup. The kids rejected this as sandwich material; just too filling and thick in it's own right, I believe. Baking our own bread was cause to bring out cinnamon bear who had been hibernating toward the back of the cupboard since March.
[modified from recipe of the same name in Bernard Clayton's New Complete Book of Breads]
The first loaf
2 cups all-purpose white flour
3 cups whole wheat flour
3 Tbl. clover honey
2 tsp. salt
1 pkg. dry yeast (2 tsp)
1/4 cup nonfat dry milk
2 cups hot water
3 Tbl. shortening
Stir yeast packet into hot water. With wire whisk attachment, blend 2 cups flour with remaining dry ingredients. Add water + yeast mixture. Incorporate. Change to bread hook attachment. Continue adding flour by half-cup increments until dough forms fall around hook and pulls away from sides of bowl. Place dough into greased bowl, cover with plastic, let rise 1 hour, until ball doubles in size. gently press down to remove air bubbles. Turn out dough onto flour surface. fold in half twice. Cut in thirds. Gently shape into loaves and fill 3 mini loaf tins.
bake 25-30 min. until crust is darkened and bread sounds hollow when tapped. Brush tops with butter.
personal note: Oh how I love using my Kitchen Aid mixer with bread hook ... cobalt blue; a requested Christmas gift from about 4 years ago. It gets a work-out, regularly. However, you need not have a stand mixer to bake breads, hands and a bowl are the good old-fashioned tools.
i have cobalt blue too...it is a workhorse. mine's about 15 years old.
Posted by: melanie | November 04, 2008 at 09:35 AM