We've made our own 100% wheat bread for some time now, in an effort to save money. I say "we" meaning quite specifically Jay and the girls.
However, while they've all done a perfectly fine job following the recipe that was suggested to us, the end result was typically much too dense and, in all honesty, not as flavorful as we would have liked. Often the loaves would be doughy, also.
I set out to find a new recipe for whole wheat bread. I kept finding recipes that used part whole wheat and part all-purpose, but I wanted a bread that was
100% whole wheat. Once I added "100%" to my search for "whole wheat bread recipe", I found one right away.
Until now, I'd been somewhat detached from the breadmaking efforts, genuinely too busy with other homekeeping tasks, but now I was interested in pursuing it. It was a very good thing for me to come to this point -- after all, I'm the mother of this home and it was high time I learn how to do this!
Some of my ingredients
Katie's specialty is machine bread. She taught me how to use the mill and here she is helping me with the flour.
Kelley Rose's specialty has been the oven bread. She sweetly led me through the mixing process, while I did the actual steps.
Here's the bread rising.
Well knock me over with a feather.
It worked!!I coated the tops with butter like my dear grandmother used to do and we enjoyed it later with hot Corn Chowder. The bread was not doughy or too dense and it had a wonderful and satisfying flavor. (This isn't particularly to my credit, it was simply a better recipe.)
The recipe seems to be a winner. Once I make it several more times myself and get proficient at it, I do plan to delegate the job back to my lovely assistant, Kelley Rose, so I may continue focusing on some bigger-picture family goals. Meantime, it will be nice to know the Lord helped me acquire personal experience with this homekeeping responsibility.
Labels: breadmaking, Katie, KelleyRose
