I was telling you about this bread the other day as i was throwing myself a rather large pitty party :) and i wanted to share the recipe. It actually started as a white bread recipe for two loafs but this year when i went to make it i realized..after starting it.. that i really didn't have more white flour! i had about 1/2 that was needed and that was it... hmm so either i through it away or i mess with it a bit and see what happens... I hate to waste stuff :) soooo i pulled out the wheat flour and the rolled oats and made a new bread. It came out REALLY good! It probable helps that we eat wheat bread now anyways lol but this came out soft and yummy!
so here we go! I want to share the yummyness!
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first the ingredients.
2-1/2 cups all purpose flour
1/4 cup sugar
1 tbsp salt ( I use two but david likes his salt! )
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1 cup of water
1 cup of milk
1/4 cup vegetable oil
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2 large eggs
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2 - 4 cups white flour ( I know that is a big diffrance in flour but stay with me here )
2 cups wheat
1 cup rolled oats ( you can cut this out and just add another 1/2 cup of flour )
ok now you know w hat you will need, let me tell you how to put it all togather.
1.combine the top portion , flour, yeast, sugar and salt in the mixing bowl you will be useing to mix all the dough ( I use my kitchen aid mixer.. got to love that thing! )
2. heat the second portion in a saucepan, the water, milk and oil. your not looking to boil it here just to warm it all up I belive this is to help activate the yeast faster ( i have found with other recipes that ask you to heat the liquid i like it better )
3. lightly beat your eggs up and add to the flour then the warm liquids on top of it and mix this up for about 3 minutes on medium.
4. now add in your 1 cup of oats and 2 cup of wheat bread and mix it up well. now take the rest of your flour and i add it 1/2 cup at a time until It's handable to start the kneading.
this is were i had problems forever was when to start the kneading and when it was done . So what i do know is take it out when its just a tinny bit sticky still and i flour my counter VERY well and my hands and drop the dough down and start kneading it. ( bring the right corner in and with the heal of your hand push it out and away from you , turn slightly to the left and bring the right corner in againd.. repeat )
I will add about 1 -2 cups of flour in at this point. I just keep kneading it until it stops being sticky and needing more flour. when i can do5 or 6 turns of the dough with out coming away with a sticky palm then your good to go.
now i take a large bowl and add about 2 tablespoons of oil to it and drop your dough in there and roll it around so the whole thing is very well couted ( to prevent drying which will give you a hard hard crust ) now put some plastic rap on the dough or a towel on top works just as good... you just want to keep the air OFF and the oil ON. now walk away and leave it for about 45 min to double in size.
PUNCH IT DOWN! lol i like that part. take it out and divide it in to and form into what ever loafs you want. you can use bread loafs or cookie sheets to make round loafs
let it stand for another 30 min to rise again and i will spray the loafs with cooking spray at this point to again keep the top from drying out and avoiding the dry rock crust that i use to get and recover then.Turn on your stove at this point to 375degrees. You want that stove nice and hot for the first rise in the oven.
Now my other trick to keep a soft yet brown crust is to use tin foil on my loafs for the first 1/2 of the bakeing . This way you get the first rise ( the first 10 min of the baking is when your yeast go CRAZY and that is were you get your puff in your bread)
then I remove the foil to get the nice brown top on it.
you want to cook at 375 degrees for 45 min ( i have cooked both loafs togather at this time and they came out done) cove with the foil for 20 min then remove to brown.
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WALLA!
maybe later ill give you my POTATO BREAD recipe :)
I put the lines in so it would be easer to copy and past to print .. Im not to blog smart yet and have no idea how to make a printer friendly page :(
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