Breaking New Ground

Hee hee hee.   The fun just continues.  And this doesn't even have anything to do with the dentist anymore.  (If you haven't been following, go back and read all the posts with "break" in the title!)

But I've invented my own recipe for whole wheat bread and am eagerly waiting for it to finish baking.  See, I didn't have all the ingredients in my other recipes for wheat bread--no dry skim milk powder, no buttermilk, etc etc etc--so I made up my own.  It's an adaptation of the loaf I made yesterday, but this time with whole wheat flour, using the 1/2 whole wheat and 1/2 white flour ratios (approximately) of the other recipes.

I'll let you know how it goes. . . . just as I typed that the machine beeped.  Now I just have to wait 10 minutes for it to cool.  And . . . .

I liked it, though the texture was a little soft, maybe because it was still really warm?  Mama likes white bread better and can't recall the wheat loaf I made earlier, so she was no help.  But, I say it's a do-again, if only because it doesn't require any quirky ingredients that I don't keep on hand.

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Wheat Bread for the Bread Machine

1 cup lukewarm milk

2 tablespoons lukewarm water

3 tablespoons butter, melted

2 ½ tablespoons sugar

2 teaspoon salt

1 3/4 cups unbleached white flour

1 1/2 cups wheat  flour

2 ¼ teaspoons yeast

 

            Mix wet ingredients and place in pan first.  Add sugar, flour, and then yeast in that order.

            Bake.

Me!