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Apple Time Giveaway  Today, I am just glad for the sunshine and the cool air. Oh my. It feels so good. I looked back over old posts and saw that we had triple digit temps in Okieland for somewhere around 60 days this summer. Really? My brain doesn’t embrace bad memories. All it is accepting right now is chilly temps and crisp air. Love it!! Of course you know that it is a proven fact that with the cooler days, there is a certain isotope that wafts in with the wind and settles on unsuspecting homemakers, rendering them slaves to a desire to bake and make soups. It is just difficult to avoid. It’s been happening since the beginning of time. I do know some individuals who have managed to resist the bombardment of these atoms by living at Panera Bread with their laptops, purchasing breakfast, lunch and dinner there, but even they have to admit that the first thing they crave is soup and hot bread!! So there you have it! In the realization of this natural phenomenom, I continue sharing bread recipes sent in by readers. This bread, sent in by reader Mrs. B, is very versatile and though it will make a large loaf of bread, I used it to make bagettes and sandwich rolls. Very good with a nutty flavor. I grind my own 9-grain flour from a combination of grain berries including hard wheat, soft white wheat, barley, spelt, millet, oats, triticale, rye and flax seed, but you can find the flour at your local health food store and in some grocery stores. 7-grain works fine too. And if anybody out there wants to share a favorite recipe, please email it and we will test it and post it! 1 1/2 cups warm water  Place brown sugar into mixing bowl. A mixer with dough hooks is great, but this can be stirred and kneaded by hand too.  In 1/2 cup warm water with 1 tsp sugar, sprinkle yeast and proof. When yeast is bubbly, add the yeast water to the brown sugar and add 1 cup more warm water.  Melt butter and add to water and brown sugar mixture. Stir slightly.  Add 9-Grain flour and stir.  Add salt  Stir and continue adding bread flour one cup at a time until dough pulls away from the bowl. You may not use all the flour. Knead with the dough hooks for 8 minutes on medium speed. Or knead by hand, on your Oklahoma Pastry Cloth™ for 10 minutes. On the pastry cloth, form the dough into a uniform ball.  Add one to two tablespoons of olive oil in the bottom of a large bowl.  Place the dough ball top down into the oil and turn so that the dough top is oiled.  Cover with a warm, wet towel and place in a warm place to rise until double.  When the dough has doubled, roll it back out onto your pastry cloth and form into rolls or long bread rolls to be placed in bagette pans.  With kitchen scissors, make diagonal cuts into the rolls.  Cover again with a warm, wet towel and place into a warm place to rise to double again. When risen, for added flavor, sprinkle with cheddar or asiago cheese. Bake in 350º oven for 20 – 30 minutes or until golden brown.  These make wonderful submarine sandwich rolls! I’m thinking soup for next week?  |
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Okay, I like the cheese sprinkled on the top! 🙂 That bread sounds great, thanks Mrs. B!
I.Must.Make.Soup!! LOL!!
Yeah, I made soup last night and will be posting it next week. Soup and homemade bread. Doesn’t get any better than that!! And you are entered in the giveaway.
Those look awesome! Great Job I can’t wait to try them.
Thanks! You will like it I think. And you are entered!
I love baking bread and I am in a rut. I need to try all your recipes! Thanks for sharing them and taking great pictures.
Hope you like them!! I’ve been having a ball trying them out.
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I don’t even have to make the recipes you post, just reading them adds 5 lbs. to my not so slender frame, but try them I will, we are still have 85 degree days here so baking is still not an option, but when (or if) it cools off here, I will be baking, and the extra lbs. can go on my darling hubby….
Looks yummy. I have to start eating better, this gives me an option that I would not have thought of myself!
I went to Safeway today and they don’t have 9 grain flour or 7 grain flour. I will have to get it on line. I should try a health food store.
You are so right about the isotope problem, seems it also flows down south her to Texas, lol. we have had stew & chili my favorite meals when we finally get that cool snap.
Sharon, all things flow south you know! 🙂 It is definitely getting to be chili weather too!
I hope you can find it, Brenda!! I have always ground my own, but I know that our health food store carries it.
This looks wonderful! So glad the weather has cooled down for you too! 100+ degrees is way too hot for this girl!