Honey Wheat-Buttermilk Bread

Makes two loaves, from the kitchen of Char Alkire
  • 2 pkgs dry yeast
  • ½ cup warm water set aside to ferment
  • Pinch of sugar

  • 2 cups buttermilk (if you don’t have any buttermilk, place 2 tbs of vinegar in the milk to sour it)
  • 2 Tbs melted butter
  • 1 cup cold water Mix all this together- then add the yeast mixture when it is ready/bubbly
  • ½ cup wheat germ
  • ¼ cup molasses
  • 3 tsp salt
  • 1 Tbs honey

Knead into the mixture above:
3 ½ cups Bluebird Grain Farms Hard Red Wheat flour
4 cups Bluebird Grain Farms Hard white flour (You will add more flour as needed as you knead.

It can be either the wheat or white or a mixture of the two.) Let rise twice, then form the dough into two loaves and let rise again. (I like to make one round loaf and one pan loaf)

Set oven to 450 degrees. Once bread is ready, place in oven at that temperature for 8 minutes. Then turn oven down to 350 degrees. Bake for an additional 30 minutes but monitor the bread closely as every oven is different.

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