I will be team teaching a Whole Wheat Bread Class tomorow with my dear friend Esther at our church. I just spent the morning typing up this flyer to use in the class, and thought I would share it here on my Blog.
If any of you readers are local people, please feel free to contact me by Email – Jenny@NaturalFamilyCo.com to get directions to attend the class – it will be from 10AM to Noon at the Boulder Stake Center in Louisville, in the Kitchen.
Here is the flyer, I am planning to add pictures and maybe even a little video to this post tomorow to enhance the information:
Whole Wheat Recipes
“All grain is ordained for the use of man and of beasts, to be the staff of life, not only for man but for the beasts of the field, and the fowls of heaven, and all wild animals that run or creep on the earth; And these hath God made for the use of man only in times of famine and excess of hunger.
All grain is good for the food of man; as also the fruit of the vine that which yieldeth fruit, whether in the ground or above the ground– Nevertheless, wheat for man, and corn for the ox, and oats for the horse, and rye for the fowls and for swine, and for all beasts of the field, and barley for all useful animals, and for mild drinks, as also other grain.”
D&C 89:14-17
Esther’s Perfect and Precise Whole Wheat Bread:
Put rack on lowest part of oven
In Kitchen aid mixer bowl:
2 ¼ C Cold Tap Water
¼ C Extra Virgin Olive Oil
1/3 C Madhara Raw Honey
1 TBS Sea Salt
5 tsp Yeast (from Sam’s Club)
Grind 5 C Mixed Grains in an electric grain mill
½ part White soft spring prairie gold wheat
½ part Hard Winter Wheat (red)
1. Turn Mixer on #1 dial (Set timer for 20 minutes for mixing dough)
Start adding Wheat Flour 1 C at a time until the sides of the bowl are clean. The last cup of flour you may not need.
2. Spray counter, knead ball of dough five times
Spray bowl – put in ball, spray plastic wrap and put over dough.
3. Turn on Oven to 170 degrees, put timer on just one min – turn off oven.
4. Put bowl in oven on lowest rack, let rise 20 minutes
5. Take out and knead dough five times.
6. Second rising: Put dough in bowl, cover with plastic wrap, back in oven for 30 more minutes
7. Knead 5 times, cut in half, roll to size of pans with your hands. Put dough in loaf pans, and cover with same plastic wrap. Put pans in lower rack in over, rise 50-65 minutes – try to let it rise 2 ½ to 3 inches above the rim of the pan.
8. Take loaf out of over, remove wrap. Preheat ove to 375. Cook at least 20 minutes or until the center of the loaf is 170 degrees. Use a baking thermometer to test the temp.
All of these steps will give you the absolute best whole wheat bread you have ever eaten!
Whole Wheat Snickerdoodles
1 C Butter
1 ½ C Sugar
2 eggs
1 ¼ C White Flour
1 ¼ C Whole Wheat Flour
¼ C Flax Meal
2 tsp cream of Tartar
1 tsp Soda
¼ tsp Salt
2 Tbsp Sugar
1 Tbsp Cinnamon
Cream Sugar and Butter.
Add eggs and blend well.
Combine next 4 dry ingredients, then add to the wet mix.
Form into balls, and roll in sugar and cinnamon mixture.
Place on cookie sheet. Bake at 400 degree for 6 to 9 minutes.
Elijah Muffins
“And she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse, and behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress if for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die. And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou hast said: but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it unto me, and after make for thee and for they son.
For thus saith the Lord God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the Lord sendeth rain upon the earth. And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house did eat many days. And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by Elijah” 1st kings 17:12-16
2 ½ C Whole Wheat Flour
½ C Flax Meal
1 tsp Sea Salt
¼ C Maple Syrup
½ C Olive Oil
Mix ingredients together and drop into a 12 cup muffin pan. Bake for 25 minutes in a 375 degree oven.
“And we began to till the ground, yea, even with all manner of seeds, with seeds of corn, and of wheat, and of barley, and with neas, and with sheum, and with seeds of all manner of fruits; and we did begin to multiply and prosper in the land”
Mosiah 9:9
Easier whole wheat bread (but it does not taste as good As Esther’s Bread)
Whole Wheat Bread
1 tbsp. dry yeast
1/4 cup warm water
2 cups hot water
2 tbsp. shortening
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 tsp. salt
1/2 cup dry milk
7–8 cups whole wheat flour
1 cup cold water
Mix yeast and warm water and set aside.
Pour hot water over shortening, sugar, and salt.
Mix dry milk with 1 cup whole-wheat flour, add hot water mixture and 1 cup of cold water, and then add yeast mixture.
Add remaining 6 to 7 cups of whole wheat flour.
Knead until smooth and elastic, and let rise until almost double in size.
Then time as follows: Let rise 40 minutes, punch down;
let rise 20 minutes, punch down;
let rise 20 minutes, punch down.
Shape into 3 loaves and place in 3 small greased bread pans.
Allow to rise until double in size.
Bake at 375° for 40 to 45 minutes.
Makes 3 loaves
Jenny’s Whole Wheat Brownies:
1 Stick melted butter
½ C Olive Oil
2 Cups Sweetener (Sugar, honey, maple syrup, or agave)
1 Cup applesauce
4 Eggs
3 Cups Whole Wheat Flour
1/2 Cup Fresh Ground Flax Meal
1 tsp sea salt
1 bag chocolate chips
Mix wet ingredients and then slowly add dry ingredients until the dough is well incorporated. Add half of the chocolate chips to the dough.
Put dough in 9 by 13 pan and sprinkle the last of the chips over the top.
Bake for 30 minutes at 375 or until a toothpick comes out clean when you poke it in the middle of the dough.
I cut these up and freeze them for lunches. I like to eat them partially frozen, but they are also great right out of the oven.
Blender Wheat Pancakes (Makes 6 to 8 pancakes)
1 cup milk
1 cup whole wheat, uncooked
2 eggs
2 tbsp. oil
2 tsp. baking powder
2 tbsp. honey or sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
Put milk and wheat in blender. Blend on highest speed for four or five minutes or until batter is smooth. Add eggs, oil, baking powder, honey, and salt, and blend on low. Bake on hot griddle.
For Waffles: Add one additional tbsp. wheat; increase oil to 4 tbsp.
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UPDATE:
I forgot to take my camera, so I did not get any shots of the class, but we had nine moms, eight children (mostly babies), and two missionaries who just happened to show up at the church to do some other things, and stayed around to snarf bread and brownies.
I made a huge pan of blond brownies using the above recipe, and a batch of the bread dough. Esther put together her bread dough as we all visted and talked, and I gave three fifteen minute lectures on whole foods cooking, the economics of Natural Family Living, and the scriptural references to Grain eating in the four standard works of the church. It was a spirit filled, fun morning and I feel really blessed to have been a part of it.
Tired now….really tired, and I have Colorado Rep Choir practice tonight, and tomorow is stake temple day and I plan to run down to Littleton to attend two sessions while my kids are in school.
I need a nap, so nighty night.
Jenny