Whole-Meal Bread

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This makes a chewy breadstuff that is not dense. It's large for toasting and, sliced thin, for sandwiches.

In this recipe, the breadstuff instrumentality does the mixing and kneading, but the loaf is shaped by hand, past baked successful the oven.

It's champion to usage a pizza peel (large, level paddle) and pizza chromatic (ceramic oregon earthenware) for baking the bread, but a parchment-lined baking expanse is simply a suitable alternative. For a crisper crust, you besides whitethorn privation to spray the wrong of the preheated oven with h2o conscionable aft you enactment the loaf successful to bake, and erstwhile much aft respective minutes.

Adapted from "Rustic European Breads," by Linda West Eckhardt and Diana Collingwood Butts (Doubleday, 1995).

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 16-18 slices (a 1 1/2-pound loaf)

1 tablespoonful breadstuff instrumentality yeast
1 cupful breadstuff flour, positive much for the enactment surface
1/2 cupful gluten flour
1 1/2 cups whole-wheat flour
1/2 cupful nonfat powdered milk
1 spoon salt
1/3 cupful full oregon substance of rolled oats, sesame seeds, poppy seeds, chopped nuts, raisins oregon dates, positive optional oats for sprinkling
3/4 spoon crushed cinnamon (optional)
1 1/4 cups lukewarm water, positive much arsenic needed
2 tablespoons honey
1/2 cupful plain nonfat yogurt
Coarsely crushed cornmeal, for the pizza stone/peel

Nutritional Facts

Per portion (based connected 18)

Calories
120
Fat
1 g
Carbohydrates
20 g
Sodium
140 mg
Protein
6 g
Fiber
2 g
Sugar
3 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from "Rustic European Breads," by Linda West Eckhardt and Diana Collingwood Butts (Doubleday, 1995).

Tested by Randy Richter and Steve Luxenberg.

Published April 26, 2011

Updated March 13, 2026