Bread Wheat

Archive for March, 2007

I also need toast to spread avocado on, then top with garlic mushrooms… and sandwiches and burgers, and dough for pizzas – bread is useful stuff! I don’t expect gluten - free bread to ever be the same as wheat bread , and that’s okay. …

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How to Save Time and Money with Bread KitsBread kits are the frugal homemaker’s answer to saving time on baking bread. My mom has the best whole wheat bread recipe-and I love to make her bread. I can make bread for as little as 11 cents a loaf. But the time put into measuring flour, yeast, salt, NFD milk (non-fat dry milk), gluten, dough enhancer, sugar and the liquid ingredients, and then washing the  measuring utensils adds up. Still, I will not stoop as low as to buy bread for $1.81 a loaf at our commissary.So, while I was expecting Zachy, Mom taught me to make bread kits. You measure all the dry ingredients (everything except water and oil) into quart-size bags, canning jars, or Ziploc containers. I originally started making just four kits at a time.Now I usually make as many bread kits as I have containers for and then stack them nicely in my freezer. The bread kits don’t have to be frozen or refrigerated; it just makes them last longer by keeping the ingredients from going rancid.When I’m ready to bake bread, I get out my bread kit and bread machine. I put my 1-3 T. oil in the bread machine with 1 1/3 cups very warm water, add the bread kit and let it knead and rise. I like to bake the bread in my oven (instead of the bread machine). So I take the dough out of the bread machine after it’s kneaded and risen, form it, place it in the pan to rise a second time, and then bake. Sometimes I bake two loaves at a time to share with neighbors. That’s when I’ll use my Kitchen-Aid to knead the bread and then let it rise in a big Tupperware bowl, separate it into two loaves, form them, let them rise in their pans, and bake both in the oven.Bread kits save me a lot of time and hassle. I wash all the measuring cups once after making sixteen or so kits. On baking day, I eyeball the amount of oil (so I don’t have to wash a measuring spoon), I don’t wash the glass measuring cup that only measured water (I just put it in the dish-rack to dry), but I do wash the bread machine pan and the loaf pan and the counter I formed the loaf on.My Mom created this whole wheat bread recipe. I recommend using white wheat flour instead of red wheat flour– not to be confused with white flour (which is refined).

http://www.ManjulasKitchen.com INGREDIENTS: This recipe makes 4 Roti’s: 1/2 Cup Whole wheat flour Pinch of Salt 1/4 Cup and 1 tablespoon of luke warm water 1/4 teaspoon of Oil 1 teaspoon of Ghee or clear butter Please send comments to: ManjulasKitchen@yahoo.com

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Thanks to Lorka150 @ Celiac.com, there is a terrific recipe for bread out there that tastes a whole lot like whole wheat bread . Even the dough smelled like a wheat bread . It was delicious. Gluten Free Flax Bread …

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