Homemade Wheat Bread & Honey butter
The skill of making bread may seem old-fashioned until there is a pandemic and the store shelves are empty.
You never know when the skill of baking bread will come in handy. Right now the store shelves are empty, thanks to COVID-19, and if your family is anything like my family you NEED bread. I will tell you, this is my sisters recipe. She’s the queen when it comes to making bread. When I was struggling with a recipe she stepped in and helped me succeed with this recipe.
Homemade Wheat Bread
Yield: 5 loaves
In the mixer mix:
7 C of flour (I used 5 cups of wheat and 2 cups all-purpose or bread flour) plus more below
3 T Yeast (Saf-Instant is best)
1 T Sugar
5 1/2 C warm-hot water
Mix until smooth
add 1 more cup of flour & mix
Then add:
2/3 C oil
2/3 C honey
2 T salt
4 C more flour
Mix or knead for 15-20 minutes
Instructions
My dough on the oiled counter waiting 10 minutes….
1. After you are done kneading the dough in mixer put on an oiled counter. Knead into a ball and let sit for 10 minutes.
After 10 minutes divide into 5 equal parts. (I weighed the dough and divided into 5)
Shape into loaves and place in oiled bread pans. Let rise 45-60 minutes or until double in size with a towel over them.
Bake at 350 in pre-heated oven for 25 minutes.
Once pans are done baking butter the tops and dump out of pan onto wire cooling racks.
My loaves after rising an hour before they go in the oven.
For the honey butter:
1 C butter (room-temp)
1/2 C honey
1/2 C powder sugar
2 tsp cinnamon
2 pinches of salt
Mix butter, honey and powder sugar together until smooth. Then add cinnamon & salt and mix.
