Bread – whole wheat, 50/50 or white from Crystal Young

Easy - 5 ingredients + water

water
yeast
sugar
flour
salt
oil

4 cups warm water (baby bottle warm)
1/3 cup sugar or honey
3 TBS yeast
8-10 cups flour (any combination of wheat and white. If using wheat flour, the dough will pull away from the bowl with less flour - closer to 8 cups. Let it mix a little longer than the white flour - 3-4 minutes. Generally 10 cups if using white flour)
1 TBS salt
1/3 cup oil

optional 1/3 cup gluten will help wheat bread stick together also.

Add all ingredients together in the order listed. Mix all ingredients. Form into loaves. Heat oven to 350 degrees while the bread rises until double in size. Bake for 30-35 minutes.


Options for a taste and texture you like: add 1/3 cup gluten, 1-2 eggs, milk instead of water, butter instead of oil, honey instead of sugar, or leave the oil out altogether and make a "french Loaf" My Grandma would let her whole wheat flour sit in the warm water for a hour to develop more of the gluten naturally in the wheat flour.