Multi-Grain Bread in a Bread Machine

 

 

Multi-Grain Bread made in a bread machine

This is a wonderful recipe that is pleasantly inexact, developed by Mrs. Knutson
in Minnesota many years ago.  It works in the bread machine too!

One has choices.

4 cups flour, one of which should be unbleached unenriched white.  This time I used

2 c. Whole Wheat flour
1 c. Rye flour
1 c. White flour. 

1 1/3 cups liquid (milk, water, saved cooking water). In these loaves I used

1 1/3 c. milk
1 egg
2 Tb. butter
2 Tb. honey
1 tsp. salt
1 packet yeast. 

Add butter and honey to milk, then heat to lukewarm, stirring.
Pour liquids into the bread machine first.
Pour in the egg, lightly beaten
Put flour into bread machine over the liquids.
Sprinkle salt over it.

Make a little well in the flour and into that pour the yeast

Bake on Whole Wheat setting with crust set to "dark".

When the machine has run long enough to make a ball of dough, look to see whether it is too dry and crumbly and if so, add a bit more liquid.  (Follow directions that came with the machine.)

The kneading cycle will have a pause when you can add such things as nuts or cheese if you like.

note:  you can get away with adding a bit more butter and a bit more honey if you like.   You may prefer more salt, too.

To see a full set of photographs showing how this dish was made, go to this set on flickr.   (It will open in a new tab or window; to return to this page, just close it.) The small pictures are thumbnails; click on each one to see it full-size, and to read the comments under it.  If you prefer to use the slideshow feature, you won't see the captions unless you click on "show info" (top right).