Healthy Whole Wheat Bread

One of my family's favorite things to smell when they walk through our front door is fresh baked whole wheat bread. I will share with you my recipe. I have tweaked it from a good friend's recipe (thanks Jenni!) and we love this. I hope you enjoy it too.


Whole Wheat Bread

4 cups very warm water
4 cups whole wheat flour
1/3 cup wheat gluten
2 Tablespoons yeast

Mix all these ingredients in your mixer until they are wet and well mixed (about 45 seconds - one minute). Let this mixture "sponge" (it will swell up in the bowl) for 30 minutes. After 30 minutes, add the following:

1/3 cup olive oil
1/3 cup honey
1 Tablespoon salt
3-4 cups whole wheat flour...sometimes I have to add as much as 4.5 cups, to get it to where I wanted the dough. Dough is a funny thing, that each batch is a bit different.

Let this all mix for 6 minutes. Turn oven on to 320 degrees. After six minutes separate dough into 4 bread pans and allow to rise about 5 minutes, just make sure the dough doesn't raise above the pans, or your bread will get WAY too high.

Bake for 30 minutes at 320 degree....then eat and enjoy!