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Honey Banana Whole Wheat Bread

Posted in Labels: , , | at 1:52 PM
This bread is not as "Bananay" as a typical banana bread but it delicious for french toast or peanut butter sandwiches.  This recipe is from the manual for my bread machine and I've modified it a bit. It makes a 1 1/2 pound loaf. Just layer the ingredients in the machine and choose wheat bread.

1/2 cup warm water
1 TBS butter
1/4 cup honey
1 egg
1/2 tsp vanilla
1 cup whole wheat flour
1 1/4 cup white bread flour
3 TBS wheat gluten
1 banana diced
1/2 tsp salt
1 1/2 tsp dry yeast

If you try this recipe let me know how it turns out.
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Honey Whole Wheat Bread

Posted in Labels: , , | at 1:19 PM
This is my recipe for Honey Whole Wheat Bread that I make in my bread machine. It is from the manual for the bread machine and I have modified it a little. It makes a 1 1/2 pound loaf.

Remember all you have to do is put the ingredients into the bread machine in the order given.

1 1/4 cups warm water
1 TBS canola oil
3 TBS honey
3/4 cups whole wheat flour
1 3/4 cups white bread flour
1/4 cup gluten (you can add more if you want the bread softer up to a 1/3 cup is fine)
1/2 tsp salt
1 1/2 tsp dry yeast

Adjust the settings to 1 1/2 pound loaf, whole wheat bread, and pick your doneness (I choose light). Let the machine do the rest. Enjoy!!

Let me know if you have tried it and how it came out.
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Making Your Own Bread - The Machine

Posted in Labels: , , | at 1:01 PM

I am very proud to say that I make our own bread. I say this with a smirk because although you will smell the bread freshly baking in my house a few days a week, I wouldn't be able to do it without my bread machine. I haven't conquered making bread by hand at so many levels including time, mess, and a quality bread my family enjoys. I'm just not good at it.

I do feel that I have mastered making bread in my bread machine. As far as I'm concerned I am still giving my family healthy food where I can control the ingredients and I'm saving money.

Using the bread machine is quite simple. I have only used mine (which is on the side if you are interested) so I can only speak for my machine but I'm sure they are all similar. It takes me about 15 minutes to start a loaf of bread and I don't have to do anything else for several hours or more.

Step 1 -  Layer all the ingredients into the bread machine in the order given in the recipe. Just dump everything in. If you are using a delay feature you will want to make sure the water and yeast are not touching otherwise just dump it all in.

Step 2 -  Adjust the settings to the size of the loaf, type, and how done you want your bread (I choose light) and press Start!

Step 3 -  Once the bread is cool take it out and enjoy.

Now, who can't do that? The key is a good recipe and the right ingredients. I enjoy a light bread and whenever I have made bread it always come out like lead. I have found by adding wheat gluten to the recipe it lightens it up. The other item I use is bread flour because it has a higher gluten content than all purpose flour.

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Eating Healthy - No HFCS

Posted in Labels: , , , | at 10:58 AM
We are making an effort, as many are, to eat as healthy as we can and this included reducing or eliminating our consumption of High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS). As I started looking over the things we had in our house I found it everywhere. It was in our 100% whole wheat bread ($3+ bread), yogurt, cereal, and of course condiments. I don't mind if its in junk food since we limit that anyway but I DON'T want it in what I would consider healthy food.

We also went out to Lancaster, Pennsylvania around this time and I was able to buy some fresh bread at the farmers market and I had an idea...I'm going to make my own bread. I have had a bread machine since we got married and I never use it. Why not start making my own bread. I already make my own jam and I love to cook.

I looked up some recipes, learned a little bit, and then modified the recipes to make some delicious and healthy breads. So far I have made a honey whole wheat, banana whole wheat, and a sourdough bread that all came out great. I tried to make a whole wheat sourdough and that one needs some more work. I have found that by adding gluten to the recipe it helps the bread to be lighter and not so dense, especially if its a whole wheat bread.

I feel so good about making fresh bread and feeding it to my family. For this delicious and healthy bread it costs just about $1 a loaf and that is a huge saving over the healthy bread options at the grocery store. I just smile when I make them french toast for breakfast and they gobble it up! I will be posting some of these bread recipes soon. I hope you give them a try. Let me know how they come out.
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