SETTIN' 'ROUND BREAD

A 7-grain bread for toasting or eating plain

Ingredients

• 60 ml water at 40C
• 65 g turbinado sugar (most any sugar will do, though)
• 14 g active dry yeast
• 60 g butter
• 60 g shortening
• 350 ml water
• 120 ml milk
• 1 large egg
• 115 g non-fat dry milk
• 7.5 ml salt
• 25 ml honey
• 0.5 ml ground cinnamon
• 40 g rolled oats
• 90 g corn meal
• 15 g bran
• 30 g cracked wheat
• 40 g buckwheat
• 65 g soy flour
• 90 g rye flour
• 325 g whole wheat flour
• 300 g white flour
• butter

Procedure

1. Melt the shortening and the butter. Let them cool a bit, so as not to kill the yeast when they are added to the dough. If you want to scald the milk, do so, and also let it cool (it is common practice to scald milk before baking with it, though I never do.)
2. Dissolve the yeast and sugar in the 60 ml of lukewarm water.
3. Mix the cinnamon, oats, corn meal, bran, cracked wheat, buckwheat, soy flour, and rye flour. Add the rest of the water, the milk, butter, shortening, egg, and honey, and mix well. Stir in the dissolved yeast mixture. Mix in the salt, and the whole wheat flour.
4. Stir in the white flour, about 50 g at a time, until the mixture is stiff enough to knead. You'll probably have about half of it left.
5. Remove the dough from the mixing bowl, onto a floured surface. Knead the dough, adding more white flour as necessary to keep the dough workable. Knead the dough until it is smooth and elastic, about ten minutes. It's okay if you end up using less than or more than the three cups of white flour; just use whatever it takes.
6. Put the dough back into a bowl that's been very lightly greased. Let it rise, covered, in a still, warm place (around 30C is best, though room temperature will work) for 45 minutes, or until it has doubled in bulk.
7. Punch the dough down, divide in half, shape into loaves, and place each half into a loaf pan which has been very lightly greased. Let rise again, for another 45 minutes, in a still, warm place, until the loaves have about doubled in bulk.
8. Preheat the oven to 175C as the bread finishes rising. Bake the bread for 35-40 minutes, until it sounds hollow when tapped. Remove from the loaf pans, and rub the top of the loaves with some butter to give them a nice, soft, chewy crust.

Rating

Contributor

 
Alan M. Marcum 
Sun Microsystems, Mountain View, California 
sun!nescorna!marcum 
 

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