Baking your own oatmeal molasses bread is a delightful and rewarding experience, offering several benefits:
- Control Over Ingredients: You can choose high-quality, organic ingredients, avoid preservatives, and adjust the recipe to suit dietary preferences or restrictions.
- Freshness: There’s nothing quite like the taste and aroma of freshly baked bread. Home-baked bread is free from the additives and preservatives found in store-bought versions.
- Nutritional Value: Homemade bread can be more nutritious. Oatmeal is rich in fiber and essential nutrients, while molasses adds iron, calcium, and magnesium.
- Customization: You can experiment with different flours, add nuts, seeds, or dried fruits, and adjust the sweetness or texture to your liking.
- Cost-Effective: Baking at home can be more economical in the long run, especially if you bake regularly.
- Therapeutic Activity: Baking can be a relaxing and enjoyable activity, offering a sense of accomplishment and creativity.
And hey, it’s a wonderful way to fill your home with the comforting, inviting scent of freshly baked bread.
Oatmeal Molasses Bread
Simple oatmeal and molasses bread.
Equipment
- 2 Large Bowls one for mixing and one for letting the dough rise in
- 2 Loaf Pans 2 large loaf pans(13X5) or 3 smaller ones (9X5)
Ingredients
- 4 Cups Water Boil
- 2 Cups Quick or cut oats
- 3/4 tsp Cinnamin opt
- 1/4 Cup Sugar
- 3 tbsp coconut oil Can substitute
- 3 tsp Salt
- 1 Tbsp Flax Seed
- 1 Cup Molasses Can cut with maple syrup if using less sugar
- 8-9 Cups Bread Flour Organic non-bleached
- 2 1/8 tsp dry yeast
Instructions
- Add oats, cinnamon, sugar, oil, salt, flax seed, molasses and or maple syrup in a large bowl.
- Bring 4 cups of water to a full boil and add to dry ingredients. Mix well.
- Allow mixture to cool to 109-115, (no higher) before adding yeast.
- After yeast is well mixed in, add flour and kneed for 5 to 10 minutes creating a soft ball. Put dough in large slightly oiled bowl and allow to rise for 90 minutes.Keep warm 98-105F or place in bread proofer. Dough should almost double in size.
- After 90 minutes, take dough out of the proofer and spread out on a board roughly the length of the pans. Split in two halves, (or thirds) and place into pans lined with parchment paper.
- Place bread pans in a warm place and once again allow it to rise. 60 minutes.
- After the bread has risen, put a small amount of whole oats on the top of the loaves and gently press in.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees, once up to temperature bake for 46 minutes or until the center of the loaf is 200F.
- Take bread out of the pans and place on a wire rack and allow to cool.
- ~ENJOY~
Maple Syrup
100% locally sourced and harvested maple syrup. Tasty dark
$12.00 – $22.00