Sanni's Oat Bread
List of Ingredients
I love this bread and I'm proud of it because it my first succeed in copying a bakery recipe.I hope you like as well:Recipe
4 cups unbleached bread flour
1-1/2 cups quick cooking oatmeal
� to3/4 cup oat kernels, soaked about 24 hours and boiled 1 hour if you like them really soft
2 tbsp. honey
1 tbsp. oil or soft butter
2-1/4 tsp. yeast
1-1/2 tsp. salt
1 to 1-1/2 cups warm water* or milk
egg white for brushing if desired
� I use the soaking water from the oat kernels.
Mix flour (saving about � cup), oats, yeast and salt in a large bowl.Add oat kernels, drained, honey, butter and water (I add the liquid in bread recipes very gradually since I�ve made the experience that most American recipes are too wet for German flour).Mix with a wooden spoon until sticking together, turn out on a working surface and knead, adding the remaining flour if necessary.Knead about 5 minutes, then shape into a ball, put ball in a greased bowl, turn once to coat and let rise in a warm place about 1 hour.
You can make the dough with a dough hood of a hand mixer or a machine if you want and I think it�ll work in a bread machine as well.I make it by hand as I love to feel a dough and I need to feel it otherwise I never get the right consistence.
Once dough is risen turn out of bowl, punch down and divide in two equal parts.Roll each part into a oval or rectangle about 1/3 inch thick.Spray with a little water.Roll each part up jelly-roll style and put in a greased 8 by 4 inch loaf pan.I would always use this �treatment� for loaf bread as I�ve made the experience that they rise higher this way and the crumb is more even.
Put in a 400� oven, throw some ice cubes on oven bottom.Reduce heat to 360� and bake for about 35 minutes.If you want them looking shiny brush with egg white before baking.
After baking remove from pans and let cool on a wire rack.
Hope you like this one:0)
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