New Bread Recipe

The bread maker may have finally died. It would play dead every once in a while, but last night it wouldn't turn on at all.


So I made two loaves by hand (!)

We've mostly been eating home made bread. The store bought stuff has so many extra ingredients and I don't trust their percentage of whole wheat. The bread maker would make this so easy - pop the ingredients into the bowl and in a little less than four hours - bread!

Granted, the texture was more sandwich than artisanal, but if you work until 5 pm a bread maker saves you from pepperidge farm corn syrup.

And it tasted much better.

So when confronted with a stubborn machine I turned to a whole wheat recipe from Martha.
http://www.marthastewart.com/recipe/whole-wheat-oat-bread?autonomy_kw=Whole%20wheat%20bread
(sorry can't figure out how to embed link from the iPhone)

Aside from the fact that the online recipe is missing the key ingredient of 1 1/2 cups ww flour, I thought it turned out very well. Kneading was soothing, it rose as expected, and it tastes like something from whole kibble.

I'm still planning on finding a replacement bread maker, but maybe I'll make more by hand now.