Rogers Whole Grain Bread

By tbarg

Roger's Mill Bread Recipe

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup warm water
• 1 tsp. honey
• 2 Tbsp. yeast
• Dissolve yeast and honey in warm water and let stand 10 minutes.
• 3 1/2 cups warm water
• 1/4 cup honey
• 2 Tbsp. molasses
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil
• 2 eggs, beaten
• 2 Tbsp. lemon juice
• 7 cups Rogers Whole Grain Flour
• 4 tsp salt
• 3 1/2- 4 1/2 cups Rogers All Purpose Flour

Preparation

Step 1

Measure warm water into a large mixing bowl; add honey, molasses, oil, beaten eggs and lemon juice; mix well. Add yeast mixture and stir. Gradually add 5 cups Rogers Whole Grain flour, beating vigorously after each addition. Let stand 15-20 minutes until mixture is very light. Stir in salt and add remaining whole grain flour and sufficient all-purpose flour to make a soft, workable dough. Turn dough out on lightly floured surface; knead 10-15 min. until dough is smooth and elastic. Form dough into a ball and place in a greased bowl, turning once to grease the top. Cover and let rise for 50 min. or until doubled. Punch down and shape into 4 round balls. Cover and let rest for 20 min. Form into loaves and place in greased loaf pans. Brush tops with oil. Cover and let rise 50-55 minutes. Bake in 375F oven 30-40 minutes or until bread tests done. Remove from pans and cool on wire rack.
*For consistently good results, lemon juice, the natural dough improver, is added when baking bread with no additive flours.