Wheat Bread for the Bread Maker

Wheat Bread for the Bread Maker

1 ½ cups milk 2 cups wheat flour

¼ cup applesauce 2 cups bread flour

¼ cup honey ½ cup ground flax seed

1 tsp salt ½ cups ground oats

1 Tbsp yeast

Directions:

1. Add wet ingredients to bread maker: Add milk, applesauce, honey, and salt (in that order) to the bread maker.
2. Add the dry ingredients to the bread maker: Add wheat flour, bread flour, flax seed and oats (in that order) to bread maker.
3. Dig a well and add yeast: Dig a well in the middle of the dry ingredients and pour yeast into the well.
4. Select the cycle: Do whatever suits your bread maker best. I usually do a 2 lb loaf, medium crust, wheat bread cycle.
5. Let the machine do the work and enjoy: Let it cook up your yummy bread for you and enjoy!

Notes:

Adding salt to the wet ingredients helps the yeast to rise better. I used to mix the dry ingredients in a bowl first, but got lazy. You can do it either way. So really save time. Make up a batch of bread, and then make up a few extra bags of just the dry stuff and store it in a gallon sized ziploc in your pantry. When you need more bread, just grab and go! Also you can store your bread in a bread bag and it will stay fresher longer. If you don't eat your bread fast enough, cut it up in small pieces and dry it out for bread crumbs (also great if you happen to mess up). Each bread maker reacts differently, so feel free to play with the recipe until you get it perfect for your family! Also, be sure not to put homemade bread in the fridge as this can actually dry it out faster.

Updated November 2014 :)