Half a Yard: Homemade 100% Whole Wheat Bread

In my quest to eliminate or at least greatly reduce my white flour and sugar intake I have started making my own 100% whole wheat bread. I have found that it is hard to find bread that is 100% whole wheat without any preservatives. The brands that I have found are usually very dense and sometimes a little bit too hardy tasting.

I decided to start making my own so that I will know exactly what is going in to the bread. However, as always, limited time is an issue for me. So I found a recipe in the same 5 minute bread book that I posted about earlier.

I would post the recipe, but I do not want to break any copyright laws. However, the bread has very few ingredients and is simple to mix and bake. The only ingredients are whole wheat flour, honey, oil, yeast, milk and salt.

I mix up the bread and bake it on Sunday evenings, and then it lasts for the remainder of the week. I have been experimenting with the recipe a little bit over the past few weeks. I have added flaxmeal, whole flax seeds, oatmeal, and walnuts. The flaxmeal I substituted for an equal amount of flour so that it would not change the ratio of dry to wet ingredients. All of the other items I just added in addition to the regular recipe. So far all of the additions have turned out fine. The bread is a little bit dense, but has a great slightly sweet flavor to it.