Honey Wheat Bread
Kirkland Family Favorite
6-8 cups of fresh ground wheat flour (we use our Country Living Mill)
1/3 to 1/2 cup of honey
3 cups of warm water
2 tablespoon yeast (2 packages)
2 tablespoon dough enhancer (or we use vinegar instead)
1/3 cup of oil
1 ½ teaspoon salt
Directions:
Take 1 cup of the warm water and place it in a bowl.
Sprinkle the yeast on top and then add the honey (you can lightly swirl the yeast on top to help it mix)…
Let this sit for about 4-5 minutes.
While you are waiting on the honey to activate in your mixing bowl-
Add the remaining 2 cups of warm water, oil, dough enhancer (or vinegar), salt and 4 cups of flour to your bowl of your table top mixer.
Let this blend with your dough hook on slow speed to get ingredients blended while you are waiting on the yeast mixture to activate.
After your yeast has had time to activate add this mixture to your mixing bowl of your table top mixer
Plus 2 additional cups of flour. Let this blend for about 10 minutes.
After 10 minutes add an additional 2 cups of flour gradually and let mix thoroughly (depending on conditions you may need more and sometimes even less flour).
After the dough is mixed (this is indicated by the ball of dough cleaning the sides of the mixing bowl).
Pour (plop) on a smooth clean countertop area about 2 Tbl of oil .place your dough on this lightly greased area. Lightly … punch dough a few times to spread and lengthen the dough (working too much will make it tough. Just enough to be able to separate)
Separate your dough into equal portions. (Usually 2 or 3, depending on your bread pan sizes) be sure to oil your pans really well (we have found that spray olive oil in the pans work the best). Place in pans.
Cover with a large clean cloth (we use our Mama Baker’s old flour sack dish cloths) and let it rise for 1 to 1 ½ hours. About 10 minutes before the rising is complete …. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Bake at 350 degrees for about 25 to 30 minutes for bread pans. Be sure and place on wire racks to cool.
Rather than baking all 3 loaves at the same time you can use one portion for hamburger or hotdog buns. (15 minutes of bake time)
Get creative, brush some butter on the tops prior to baking. We like to use one portion of the dough and add a cup of dried cranberries and ½ cup of chopped pecans and bake on a flat stone (it doesn’t get a whole lot better than hot cranberry/pecan bread).
Enjoy your bread
Michael & Teresa
As with anything that has no preservatives you need to use within a few days or even pop it in the fridge to help.
