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Easy Honey Wheat Bread

A slightly sweet bread to bake in your bread machine
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 3 hours
Cuisine: American
Ingredients Equipment Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 2 cups Whole Wheat Flour I use Central MIlling's white whole wheat
  • 1.5 cups Pastry or White Bread Flour I use Central Milling's white pastry flour
  • 1 tbsp Sugar I use organic raw sugar
  • 1.5 tsp Salt
  • 2 tsp Active Yeast
  • 1 tbsp Vital Wheat Gluten
  • 1/4 cup Coarse Ground Mixed Grains I use Central Milling's steel cut cracked 6 grain
  • 1/8 tsp Baking Powder Optional
  • 3 tbsp Butter
  • 1/4 cup Honey
  • 1 small Egg
  • 1 cup Water
  • 1/4 cup Whole Milk

Equipment

  • Hamilton Beech Bread Machine

Method
 

  1. This is a bread machine recipe so that means easy peasy on the instructions. First, remove bread cooking container from machine to add ingredients
Wet Ingredients - These go in first
  1. Add water and milk
  2. Add egg
  3. Add butter
  4. Add honey
Dry Ingredients
  1. Add whole wheat flour
  2. Add salt, sugar, baking powder and wheat gluten
  3. Add white flour
Yeast
  1. Add yeast as the last ingredient. Do be sure that it does not sit on top of the salt.

Notes

This is a variation of the White Wheat Basic recipe in the Hamilton Beech guide.  It is set to produce a 1.5lb loaf.  
Once the ingredients are assembled, select Cycle 1, 1.5lb size and light crust and press start.