So the other day I went to Whole Foods Market (gotta love that place!) and in the bulk section, I found organic 7 grain cereal. It was only thirty-nine cents a pound! It looked perfect for making multigrain bread.
Of course, I wanted to use my bread machine, so I used the recipe from the bread machine recipe book..I figured I would start with that and see how it turned out….well, I think it turned out really well.
As soon as it came out of the oven, we all wanted a piece, which I think is always a mistake..it seems like those types of bread always have to sit for a bit…at least twenty minutes.
Multigrain Bread (large loaf bread machine recipe)
1 ¼ cups water
2 tablespoons butter, softened
1 1/3 cups white flour
1 1/3 cups whole wheat flour
1 cup 7 grain cereal
3 tablespoons packed brown sugar
1 ¼ teaspoons salt
3 teaspoons regular active dry yeast
People who don’t make bread just don’t realize how much money they can save by making it themselves. As you point out, 39 cents a pound for the main ingredient!
How can you do better than that!! (Well, actually, I like to grind my own wheat berries … really fresh wheat!)
A trick you might try as an ingredient, Lipton’s Onion Soup Mix… just toss in one packet to your dough – you may have to watch the liquid… perhaps another tablespoon of water…
Makes a loaf that smells and tastes wonderful!