Sounds like a mouthful! But just wait until you take a bite of this bread and you will experience the complex, rich and nutritous warm, fluffy whole grain taste that actually fills your mouth. I mean if you eat with your eyes first, just take a look:

You can almost taste the wholesomeness through the picture. One slice of this bread has more vitamin E, fiber and antioxidants than you could imagine. You can use this bread for sandwhiches, toast, even bread pudding.What is even better is that you can use this basic dough recipe for pizza dough, bagels, pita, tortillas… even doughnuts! Coincidentally, it is very easy to make: from wheatberry to bread.

Since this is one of my first posts and basic breads, I’ll go through the whole rigmarole of documenting my set up and many of the steps of this process.

Lecithin is the bag of golden looking granules and it really makes the bread soft and the dough less sticky. Yeast, obviously allows the dough to rise and the gluten just makes sure the bread rises properly and makes the dough softer. I have the gluten in a glass jar and I keep both the gluten and the lecithin in the fridge (to extend its shelf life).

OK, now we’re ready to mill the flour. I just fill the cuisinart coffee grinder reservoir to about one inch below the top. Then I simply put it on it’s finest grind setting and push “start.” Once I have ground all the flour, I add the whole flax seeds and grind those as well.

The photo on the left is the freshly milled flour, the photo on the right is the freshly milled flax. Note: make sure you freeze any left over flour or flax as they will both go rancid.

Next, you add your wet ingredients (water, oil, honey and egg). Then add your salt, lecithin, gluten, half the flour and all your ground flax. Mix thoroughly. Then add the yeast and enough flour to make a soft dough. Knead the dough until it is smooth and elastic. If you use the kitchenaid mixer, it is done when all the flour collects in a ball and sticks to the hook and there is virtually none left on the side as pictured (should take about 6 minutes):

Next, you let the dough rise until the dough doubles in size:

Then you take this and put it into your loaf pan (2Lbs). I mean just look at this texture!! You can literally SEE the whole grains.

Ok, enough of that, just put the dough into your bread pan and let it rise again until the size of the dough doubles.

                                                              
Then just bake in the oven at 350 for 25-30 minutes. I got the basic dough recipe from The Bread Beckers INC Recipe Collection and tweaked it a bit to my liking. Tweaking recipes and BYOC (Being Your Own Chef, in the famous words of Clare Robinson, one of my favorite food network chefs) is my favorite thing about cooking and being in the kitchen!