Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and the other left.

Matthew 24:41

Now therefore, please, heed also the voice of your maidservant, and let me set a piece of bread before you; and eat, that you may have strength when you go on your way.”   1 Samuel 28:22

Baking homemade bread is always such a delightful way to make your home feel warm and inviting! When you make it from freshly milled flour and use honey as your sweetener, you know it is a healthy bread your family can enjoy guilt-free, and the cost for the ingredients for a loaf are less than buying even cheap store-bought bread.

We do use a 5-loaf mixer and mill our own wheat.

There is nothing like the smell and taste of fresh, oven baked bread.

Would you like to see the recipe for our Five Loaves of Bread made in a Bosch large capacity mixer?

Five Loaf Recipe

Adapted from a recipe from Breadbeckers.com

5 cups Hot Water

1 ¼ cup oil (half olive oil, half canola)

¾ cup honey

2 ½ Tbs. Instant Yeast

12-14 cups whole wheat, freshly milled flour (I prefer Prairie Gold or a blend of that plus Bronze Chief)

5 tsp salt

2 Tbs Powdered Milk

2 Tbs Gluten

Step One:

Combine, water, oil, honey.  Add 8 cups of flour, Yeast, Salt, Powdered milk, Gluten.  Mix thoroughly. (2 minutes on setting 2)

Step Two:

Add remaining flour and knead until smooth and elastic (10 minutes on Setting 2)

Step Three:

Let it rise for five minutes.  Then press 2 for just a few seconds.

Step Four:

Shape into loaves or rolls with oiled hands.

Step Five:

Place into greased pans and let rise until double. I use Norpro pans, and have had these for 15 years.

Bake at 350 degrees for 25-30 minutes.  Let them cool in the pans for about 5 minutes, then turn out on a cooling rack to cool completely.

Yields 5  1 ½lb loaves.

For those of you without a large capacity mixer or a mill to grind your wheat, you might want to try our two loaf recipe:

Sweet Whole Wheat Bread – 2 loaves

2 cups hot water

1/3 cup olive oil

½ cup honey (can use less)

3 ½ tsp instant yeast

1 egg

4 cups freshly milled flour

1 cup store brand unbleached all purpose flour

2 tsp salt

2 TBS powdered milk

1 tsp gluten

Step One

Combine water, oil, honey and egg.

Step Two

Add three cups flour, yeast, salt, powdered milk and gluten.  Mix thoroughly.

Step Three

Add remaining flour, using dough hook, and blend until smooth and elastic (about 10 minutes). Let rise until double.

Step Four

Shape into loaves or rolls and place in greased pans.  Let rise again.  Bake at 350 degrees for about 30 minutes.

Makes two 1 ½ pound loaves.