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Honey Wheat Bread

Honey Wheat Bread

heidi medina
Cook Time 25 minutes
Total Time 2 hours 25 minutes
Servings 3 Loaves

Ingredients
  

Starter:

  • 3 cups warm water
  • 4.5 tsp. active dry yeast
  • cup honey
  • 5 cups all-purpose flour

Bread:

  • 3 Tbsp. unsalted butter, melted
  • cup honey
  • 1 Tbsp. salt
  • 3 cups whole wheat pastry flour, plus extra for kneading

Instructions
 

Starter:

  • To create the starter, place yeast in an extra-large bowl with honey. Mix well to combine before adding water.
  • Stir in the flour, cover with a cloth, set in a warm place and allow the starter to rise for about 30 minutes or until more than doubled and bubbly.

Bread:

  • Combine the butter, honey and salt in a small bowl and mix into the finished starter before mixing in two cups of the wheat flour.
  • Turn the dough out on a well-floured surface (use whole wheat for the flour) and knead until you get a smooth and slightly tacky dough.
  • Place the finished dough into a large bowl (make sure the bowl is large enough to handle the dough in doubled form, I had to use two bowls to hold it all.
  • Just divide the dough using a knife if you need to divide, to avoid harming the glutton strands.)
  • Allow the dough to rise until doubled, about one hour.
  • After the dough has risen, punch dough down and divide into three pieces to make loaves, once again cutting the dough with a knife rather than tearing it.
  • Oil or butter three loaf pans and roll dough into log forms, pinching the bottom together.
  • Place in the prepared loaf pans and allow the dough to rise again until about 1" above the top of the pans, about an hour.
  • Preheat oven to 350° F.Gently cut a slit in the top of each loaf, without collapsing dough, if desired and then bake the loaves until golden brown and you hear a hollow sound when you knock on the top of the loaf, about 25-35 minutes.
  • Remove the loaves from the oven and allow to cool in the pans for at least 10 minutes before removing to finish cooling.
  • Brush the tops of the loaves with melted butter if desired.
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