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Honey Wheat Bread or Rolls

Recipe By:	Ron and Shallen Gordon
Serving Size:	2 loafs or 24 rolls
Preparation Time:	3 hours
Categories:	Bread

Obtaining a good, whole wheat loaf of bread with your bread machine has been quite a challenge! Nonetheless, after many attempts and significant fine-tuning of our recipe, Shallen has arrived at an outstanding result that the whole family enjoys! When visiting friends, we've sometimes prepared the recipe and brought the dough with us over to their home in a loaf pan, to bake there. It fills the whole house with that wonderful, fresh-bread aroma! Try it, once you get good at this recipe.

To prepare the dough, we use the Regal Kitchen Pro bread machine, which is referred to as a one and one half to two pound loaf machine. If your machine is not large enough to make a loaf with 5 cups of flour, please refer to our reduced, one-loaf list of ingredients.

When preparing this recipe, be sure to review our special tips below.

Whole Wheat Dough

Amount	Measure	Ingredient and Preparation Method
1 1/2	Cup	Water, heated to 120° F (in our microwave)
1/4	Cup	Canola Oil (room temperature)
1/4	Cup	Honey (Use the same measuring cup used for oil)
1	Ea	Large Egg, Beaten lightly (room temperature)
3	Cup	Whole Wheat Flour
2	Cup	Better for Bread White Flour (Gold Medal)
2	Tbls	Vital Gluten
1/2	Tsp	Salt
1	Tbls	Bread Machine Yeast (Fleischmann's)

Place the water, oil, and honey into the bread machine container. Lightly beat the egg and add it. In a bowl, mix together the whole wheat flour, white flour, vital gluten, and salt. Add this mixture to the bread machine container. Make a depression into the flour and add the yeast to the very top. Process using the dough setting on the machine (about 1 1/2 hours).

Whole Wheat Bread

Remove the dough from the bread machine and divide in half. Place into two greased greased 9" by 5" loaf pans. Cover with a clean dish cloth and let rise until roughly doubled in bulk, approximately one-half hour in a warm, draft-free area (i.e. a 72° kitchen). Bake at 350° for 25 minutes.

Whole Wheat Rolls

Lightly grease two twelve-cup muffin pans. Remove the dough from the bread machine and divide into 72 equal portions.

To divide the dough into 72 portions for rolls, divide the dough in half. Set one half aside. Divide the other half into thirds. Divide these again into thirds. Divide each of these into 4 equal parts. Lightly roll each piece into a ball, and place 3 balls into each muffin cup. Repeat with the other half portion of the dough, or prepare it as a single 9" by 5" loaf. Cover with a clean dish cloth and let rise until roughly doubled in bulk, approximately one-half hour in a warm, draft-free area (i.e. a 72° kitchen). Bake rolls at 350° for 18 to 20 minutes.

Special Tips

Use the same measuring cup for the honey as you used for the oil. This helps the honey to pour from the measuring cup more easily.

After the first 5 minutes of the dough cycle, correct the dough by adding either 1 Tablespoon of bread flour or 1 Teaspoon of warmed water, to achieve a dough ball of even consistency. This isn't normally necessary but may be required in cold, dry months or in very humid conditions.

If your kitchen is not warm enough for the final rising of the dough in the pans, preheat the oven for one minute, with the temperature setting at 400° F. After one minute, turn the oven off! Place the pans into the warmed oven for their final rising time. Remove the pans and preheat the oven to 350° F to bake.

Since this recipe uses an egg, do not use the delayed-start feature.

When cutting and handling the dough, you must have a floured surface on which to work. Flour your hands as well.

We bake the bread in the loaf pans for only about 20 minutes, before we remove the bread from the pans and finish in the oven for the last 5 minutes directly on the wire rack. This lets the bottom of the loaf brown and dry, and permits you to test the loaf for doneness by tapping the bottom. It should sound hollow. Don't remove the bread from the pans too soon, or the bread will collapse!

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