This is a little departure from what I usually write about but since I was tweeting a bunch about it the other day I thought I’d post the recipe I used to bake my third and most successful loaf of bread. This recipe came to me from a baker friend named Sarah…

Oatmeal Wheat Bread

2 cups warm water
1 Tbs yeast
2.5 Tbs brown rice syrup (honey or molasses work too)
1/2 cup rolled oats
1/4 Tbs salt
2 cups whole wheat flour
2.75 cups all purpose flour

1. Mix water, yeast and syrup together to proof 5-10 minutes.

2. Add oats, salt and slowly add in the flour, mixing and slowly graduating to kneeding the bread.

3. When dough has a good consistency (feels like an earlobe), set aside and let rise for 1 hour.

4. Punch down, form into one loaf pan and let rise another 30 minutes to an hour.

5. Preheat oven to 375 F and when ready bake 45 minutes.

Notes: I did use molasses because I don’t have brown rice syrup and honey is crazy expensive. I also used a trick I found online somewhere for letting the dough rise. If you turn on your oven just enough to feel heat coming out of the open door and then turn it back off again, you have a roughly 80ish degree compartment for letting the bread rise. The very first time I tried to make bread I tried just leaving it on the counter and it never really got warm enough to rise at all. This method worked fantastically!

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