Mom’s Homemade Wheat Bread
Serves | 1 loaf
Ingredients:
1 ½ c water
⅓ c extra virgin olive oil
⅓ c honey
2 tsp salt
2 c whole wheat flour + 2 c unbleached bread flour
1 tbsp instant yeast
Directions:
Add ingredients into a bread machine pan in the order listed (except for yeast). Dig a small hole in the flour and add yeast. Do not mix.
Add bread pan to bread machine and close the lid. Choose the homemade whole wheat setting and hit start. The bread machine will now knead, proof, and bake the bread.
When the baking cycle ends, open the lid and remove pan. Let bread cool completely on a cooling rack before slicing.
Notes: My mom typically mills her own flour using 2 ¾ c hard white wheat berries, but occasionally uses a mixture of the store-bought and pre-ground flours listed above. I’ll sub bread flour for all-purpose or instant yeast for active dry—whatever I have on hand.
For a gluten free variation: add in 3 eggs and sub the flour for 4 c of 1:1 gluten free all-purpose flour.
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You’ll find this recipe (and more like it!) in my original cookbook, Feeding the Nobles: Keep It Simple and Just Eat Real Food.
