Thursday, December 4, 2008

Perfect, Healthy Homemade WHEAT Bread!

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This bread is SO easy, it's hard to find an excuse NOT to make your own bread! (And it's a hit with the family as well!) Thanks to Marie Johnson for the recipe (she created it and has perfected it over the years)!

5 cups hot tap water
½ cup honey
3 TBSP. Lemon Juice
½ cup vital wheat gluten
1 cup ground flax seed
10-11 cups whole wheat flour
2 ½ TBSP SAF Instant yeast
¼ cup oil
1 TBSP. Salt

Mixer with a dough hook

Pour hot tap water into mixer bowl. Add honey, lemon juice, gluten, flax seed and 4 cups flour. Mix until flour is wet. Add yeast and mix for 15 seconds on low. Add oil and salt. Turn mixer to low and add flour until dough forms a ball and starts to clean the sides of the bowl (it will still look a bit sticky). Mix on Medium speed for 6 minutes until dough is smooth and elastic.

Turn dough onto oiled surface. With oiled hands, form dough into 4 or 5 loaves. Put loaves into greased pans and place in oven for 30-40 minutes to rise until double. Leaving bread in oven turn oven to 350° and bake for 35 minutes. Bread is done when top crust is browned and loaf has a hollow sound when “thumped.”

Nutrition Information if you make 4 loaves (17 slices each)
Nutrition Facts

Honey Wheat Bread

68 Servings

Amount Per Serving
Calories 98.9
Total Fat 1.8 g
Saturated Fat 0.7 g
Polyunsaturated Fat 0.0 g
Monounsaturated Fat 0.0 g
Cholesterol 0.0 mg
Sodium 103.7 mg
Potassium 3.0 mg
Total Carbohydrate 18.4 g
Dietary Fiber 3.2 g
Sugars 2.1 g
Protein 4.1 g

Vitamin A 0.0 %
Vitamin B-12 0.0 %
Vitamin B-6 0.0 %
Vitamin C 3.6 %
Vitamin D 0.0 %
Vitamin E 0.6 %
Calcium 0.2 %
Copper 0.2 %
Folate 0.0 %
Iron 0.4 %
Magnesium 0.1 %
Manganese 0.1 %
Niacin 0.0 %
Pantothenic Acid 0.0 %
Phosphorus 0.2 %
Riboflavin 0.1 %
Selenium 0.5 %
Thiamin 0.0 %
Zinc 0.1 %



*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.

Nutrition Information if you make 5 loaves (16 Slices each):

Nutrition Facts

Honey Wheat Bread

85 Servings

Amount Per Serving
Calories 79.1
Total Fat 1.4 g
Saturated Fat 0.5 g
Polyunsaturated Fat 0.0 g
Monounsaturated Fat 0.0 g
Cholesterol 0.0 mg
Sodium 83.0 mg
Potassium 2.4 mg
Total Carbohydrate 14.7 g
Dietary Fiber 2.6 g
Sugars 1.7 g
Protein 3.3 g

Vitamin A 0.0 %
Vitamin B-12 0.0 %
Vitamin B-6 0.0 %
Vitamin C 2.9 %
Vitamin D 0.0 %
Vitamin E 0.5 %
Calcium 0.2 %
Copper 0.2 %
Folate 0.0 %
Iron 0.3 %
Magnesium 0.1 %
Manganese 0.1 %
Niacin 0.0 %
Pantothenic Acid 0.0 %
Phosphorus 0.2 %
Riboflavin 0.0 %
Selenium 0.4 %
Thiamin 0.0 %
Zinc 0.1 %



*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.