Friday, July 25, 2008

Honey Oat Bread

DH gave me a bread machine for my 30th birthday. Because I tend to want to eat the entire loaf, I don't use the machine very often. But last weekend I decided I wanted Dave to have some fresh bread to make peanut butter and honey sandwiches with. We didn't get as far as the peanut butter. We used the bread more like pancakes, spread with real butter and honey and stacked several pieces high.

Ingredients:
1 cup warm water
2 1/2 cups bread flour *
1/4 cup powdered milk
1/4 cup honey
1 tsp salt
1 1/2 tsp bread machine yeast
1/2 cup rolled or quick cook oats
1 TBS vegetable oil

Instructions:
Add all ingredients to bread machine pan in the order suggested by your manufacturer's guide. Select a basic cycle for medium/large loaf with a light crust. Then wait about 4 hours. Your house will smell amazing. Try not to engulf the entire loaf straight out of the bread machine. This part will be especially difficult.
* I substituted 1 cup of spelt flour for 1 cup of bread flour. Because of this I also added a tablespoon of vital gluten to make sure the bread rose. I imagine 1 cup of whole wheat would also work well.

1 comment:

Rebecca said...

Yum, I'll have to try this one! We LOVE fresh bread with butter and honey! I think the boys would eat it every day! We like to take any bread that lasts longer than a day and use it for French Toast.

To make our French Toast we soak our bread in milk, eggs, nutmeg, & vanilla! Then, we fry it in butter and serve it with a little real maple syrup. It doesn't need much b/c the nutmeg and vanilla give it a good flavor. Ok, now I'm hungry!