3 Bread Recipes

[kelliem]

theamusedone was asking for bread recipes with which to test drive his new KitchenAid mixer, so I'm putting 3 of them behind the cut below. If you have one you'd like to share, feel free to put it in the comments.

Recipes Ho!

Honey-Dill Dinner Rolls

1 pkg dry yeast
2 C. whole wheat flour
1-1/2 C unbleached white flour
1 tsp salt
1/2 to 1 tsp dried dill weed
1 C milk
1/4 C butter
1/4 C honey
1 egg
1/4 C bulgur wheat, cooked

Combine dry ingredients. Heat milk slightly. Melt butter. Beat egg slightly. Combine milk, butter, honey and egg. Pour into dry ingredients, add bulgur, and stir to blend. Knead on a lightly floured surface and let rise once. Punch down. Pinch off 3 small pieces of dough and form into balls. Place 3 balls in each 'cup' of a greased muffin pan to form 'cloverleaf' rolls. Let rise for half an hour. Heat oven to 400 F. and bake for 10-12 minutes.


Mock Sourdough Bread

2 C plain yogurt
1 pkg dry yeast
1/4 C warm water
1 Tbsp honey
2 tsp salt
1 Tbsp oil
4-4 1/2 C flour
cold water

Heat yogurt to lukewarm. Dissolve yeast in warm water, stir in honey, salt, oil, & 2 C flour. Beat until smooth. Stir in remaining flour to make dough easy to handle. Turn onto lightly floured surface and knead until smooth and elastic. Place in a greased bowl, turn greased side up. Cover, let rise until double. Punch down, divide into 2 loaves. Place in greased loaf pans. Spray with cold water and slash tops. Let rise until double, about 25 minutes. Heat oven to 375 F. Spray loaves with cold water. Bake until loaves are golden and sound hollow when tapped, about 30-35 minutes. Spray with cold water several times while baking to make crust tougher.


Apple-Bran Bread

1-3/4 C water
1 C whole bran cereal
1/4 C butter
5-1/2 -6 C all purpose flour
1/3 C brown sugar
2 pkg. rapid rise yeast
1-1/2 tsp salt
3/4 tsp ground nutmeg
2 apples, finely chopped.

Heat oven to 375 F. Grease 2 loaf pans.

Heat water, bran & butter until very warm, let stand 5 minutes. In a large bowl combine 1 C. flour, sugar, yeast, salt and nutmeg. Stir bran mixture into dry mixture. Stir in apples and enough flour to make a soft dough. Knead on a lightly floured surface until smooth and elastic. Cover, let rest 10 minutes.

Divide dough in half. Roll each half into a 12"x7" rectangle. Roll each up tightly from short end, as for a jellyroll. Pinch ends to seal. Place loaves, seam side down, in greased loaf pans. Cover, let rise until doubled 30-45 min. Bake 40 minutes or until done. Remove from pans, drizzle with icing if desired. (Combine 1 C. confectioners sugar and 1-2 Tbsp lemon juice or apple juice. Beat until smooth.)