Wheat Bread Recipe

Not only is this one of the tastiest wheat breads out there, but it is also one of the easiest to make. Very little kneading is involved and it only has to rise once. The clean up is easy too!

Wheat Bread Ingredients

Wheat Bread Ingredients

This recipe calls for:

4 1/3 Cups Flour

1 3/4 Cups Water (heated to around 115F)

2 Packages Active Dry Yeast

2 Tablespoons Molasses

1/4 Cups Corn Oil

1 1/2 Teaspoons Salt

1/3 Cup Wheat Germ

Wheat Bread Equipment

Wheat Bread Equipment

For this recipe you will need:

3 Bowls (one mettle)

Bread Board

A 5 by 9 Inch Greased Bread Pan (use vegetable fat, Crisco, to

grease the pan)

Plastic Wrap (not a towel) 

Sturdy Mettle Spoon

Measuring Cups

Measuring Spoons

Wheat Flour

First Step: Preparing Wheat Flour

(Heating the flour is the secret to this recipe. It causes the yeast to rise and create a grand loaf. Your bread will be a flop if you skip this step.)

In a heat resistant mettle bowl, or extra bread pan, heat all 4 1/3 cups of flour to around 150F in your oven. If your oven cannot bake a dish at 150, go ahead and heat the flour at the oven's lowest setting and then let the flour cool down to just under 150F. If the flour is too hot, it will kill the yeast and that is no good! This should take about 10 minutes.

Yeast and Molasses

Second Step: Preparing Yeast and Molasses

 While the wheat flour is in the oven combined:

3/4 Cups Warm Water (heated to around 115F)

2 Packages Active Dry Yeast

2 Tablespoons Molasses  

Stir this mixture until the yeast is dissolved and then let it rise for 15 minutes in a warm place. If the yeast has reacted well with the molasses it should resemble the lower left picture.

Wheat Mixture

Third Step: Mixing Wheat Bread

Add to the yeast and molasses mixture and stir together:

1/3 Cup Wheat Germ

1/4 Cup Corn Oil

1 1/2 Teaspoon Salt

Remaining Warm Water

Wheat Bread Dough

Fourth Step: Adding Wheat Flour

Gradually stir in the 4 1/3 cups of heated flour. Your dough is ready once all the flour is thoroughly mixed in and the dough begins to pull away from the sides of the bowl.

Wheat Bread Rising

Fifth Step: Kneading and Letting Wheat Bread Rise

Dump the dough out onto a lightly floured bread board. Then form the bread into a loaf. Don't knead the dough more than needed, just form it into an oval. 

Then place the loaf of wheat bread into the bread pan and cover it with plastic wrap.

Let this sit in a warm place for 45 minutes, or until the bread rises 1 1/2 to 2 inches above the lip of the bread pan. 

Wheat Bread Cooling

Sixth Step: Baking and Cooling Wheat Bread

Preheat the oven to 350F (325 for a glass pan). Then place the wheat bread on the middle oven wrack and let it bake for 30-35 minutes. Your bread is done baking when it has a hard, golden brown crust.

Once you take the wheat bread out of the oven immediately remove it from the bread pan and place it on a cooling wrack.

Wheat Bread

Wheat Bread

Now enjoy your delicious homemade wheat bread!

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