Good Morning. Yesterday was bread baking day. I have been working on my recipe for a long time now. I think I finally have it the way we like it. I'm having some friends over for lunch on Friday. I decided our menu will be:
*Tuna Salad, Egg Salad, and Chicken Salad on Homemade Whole Wheat Mini Buns with leaf lettuce and tomato
*A beautiful garden salad with a homemade italian and dill dressing
*For dessert we will have ice cream cake dessert (ice cream sandwich and cool whip layers with a crumbled butterfinger and swirls of chocolate and caramel)
What a treat to cook for others!
I used to make pizza and bread separately but now take advantage of some of my bread dough as pizza. I recommend this as baking bread takes time. It's nice not to have to worry about preparing a meal too. I am including my new recipe and I hope you will give it a try. Make sure not to add too much flour at one time. Slowly add it in one cup at a time. I always melt by crisco in a coffee mug in the microwave. Just 45 seconds does the trick. I hope you will try it. Not to pat myself on the back but it has a great flavor and is a healthier version than we are used to. Happy baking! Don't forget a bowl of salad with lots of greens and veggies! Have a blessed day!
Bread dough recipe
1 cup warm water
2 pkts yeast
2 tbsp. honey
add these first three together
next melt 3 tbsp. crisco
add that to 4 cups warm water
2 tsp salt
1/3 cup of sugar
add in yeast mixture and stir
next comes the flour
add in 1 cup at a time!
4 cups whole wheat flour
2 tbsp. wheat germ
2 tbsp. ground flax
5 cups or more unbleached white flour
mix and knead thoroughly and place in greased bowl. let rise until double in size. grease pizza pans, and mold some dough into pans. parbake at 375 for about 5 minutes. for buns pinch of about 1/2 cup size balls place into greased pans, cover with pam sprayed saran wrap and a towel. let rise and then bake for about 20minutes in 375.
enjoy!
