I know this should go in the food forum, but I thought alot of you might like this :) It tells how each ingredient works in the bread. And it's all natural, whole wheat! I've been making it this way for almost a month, and we LOVE it!! I printed it off, and keep it with my cookbooks.

http://www.newhomemaker.com/cooking/bread1.html Hope you like it!:thumbsup:

Hey thanks for the plug--that's my site! :) Those are my little piddies (and my pathetic loaves at the end) demonstrating Jean's really great recipe/techniques. As I say in the notes accompanying the article, don't hold my sample loaves against Jean!

I'm currently experimenting with Joe Ortiz's book "The Village Baker" and fresh-ground flours. Got a pretty good "poolish"-method 100% whole wheat that was tangy with a good crust on the second try. There's enough information between that and "The Bread Builders" to keep me occupied and learning for the rest of my life...

thanks mama!! :)

haven't made bread for the longest time. I suck suck suck at handmade bread but my bread machine bread is wonderful even if I am tooting my own horn!

I think my problem when hand making it is vastly underestimating the amount of kneading I did plus not enough liquid.

oh and gluten makes a HUGE difference in whole wheat or alternative flour breads!

Lastly, I think commercial bread often uses soy flour to increase keeping time. My mother is sensitive to soy (too many years of using it as a dairy replacer )O: and it is in almost all the commercial bread in Britain. I haven't tried it because homemade read barely lasts one afternoon in our house.

Hey thanks for the plug--that's my site! Those are my little piddies (and my pathetic loaves at the end)

ROFL!! I had NO idea it was YOUR site!! How funny!! I just pm'd ya :D

Yummmmmmmm. . .I was inspired and I baked two loaves of this bread today--I am eating the first slice now and it is awesome. Not quite as high as I would like--but not a heavy laof either really. This is going to save me $2.69 a loaf! yay!

Doesn't it make an awsome loaf? I love it:thumbsup:

A very tasty loaf! I have been trying to make whole grain bread that did not feel like a brick--and could work for sandwiches well! I cannot believe what a difference the vital wheat gluten makes!

yummmmm going to slice a peice of bread now!

Becca, thank you for all your bread help on board and off.

We don't do wheat in our house, anyone have a recipe for brown rice bread?