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Wheat Bread
Wheat Bread
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From: EatingWell Magazine, May/June 1996
A touch of brown sugar sweetens this multi-grain bread.
- By: EatingWell Test Kitchen
Ingredients 24 servings
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- 2½ cups nonfat milk
- ½ cup dark brown sugar
- 1½ tablespoons active dry yeast, (two ¼-ounce packages)
- 3 cups whole-wheat flour
- 2½-3½ cups unbleached bread flour, divided
- ½ cup cracked wheat
- 1½ tablespoons oat bran
- 1½ tablespoons unprocessed wheat bran
- 1½ teaspoons salt
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- Combine milk and brown sugar in a small saucepan; heat over medium heat, stirring to dissolve the sugar, until warm. (The temperature should register 95°F on an instant-read thermometer.)
- Pour the milk mixture into a large mixing bowl and sprinkle in yeast. Let stand until the yeast has dissolved, about 5 minutes.
- Meanwhile, combine whole-wheat flour, 2 cups bread flour, cracked wheat, oat bran and wheat bran in another mixing bowl.
- Give the milk/yeast mixture a stir and add about half of the flour/bran mixture to it. Add salt and beat with a wooden spoon until smooth. Beat in the remaining flour/bran mixture. Gradually add enough of the remaining white flour until you can stir no more.
- Place the dough on a floured work surface and knead, adding only enough flour to prevent it from sticking, until the dough is smooth and somewhat elastic, 5 to 10 minutes. (Alternatively, the dough can be mixed and kneaded in a stand-up mixer fitted with a dough hook.)
- Place the dough in a lightly oiled bowl and cover with plastic wrap. Let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 40 minutes. Gently punch the dough down.
- Coat two 9-by-5-inch loaf pans with cooking spray. Place the dough on a floured work surface and cut it into 2 pieces. Shape into loaves and place in the prepared pans. Cover with greased wax paper or plastic wrap and let rise until loaves are ½ to 1 inch above the tops of the pans.
- Meanwhile, preheat oven to 350°F.
- Bake the loaves until the tops are brown and the bottoms sound hollow when tapped, 30 to 40 minutes. Remove from the pans and place on a wire rack to cool.
- Per serving: 136 calories; 1 g fat(0 g sat); 3 g fiber; 28 g carbohydrates; 5 g protein; 26 mcg folate; 1 mg cholesterol; 5 g sugars; 5 IU vitamin A; 0 mg vitamin C; 37 mg calcium; 1 mg iron; 157 mg sodium; 116 mg potassium
- Carbohydrate Servings: 2
- Exchanges: 1½ starch, ½ other carbohydrate
