Whole Wheat Honey and Oatmeal Bread
This picture of the wonderful black forest ham, Vintage Tillamook Sharp White Cheddar Cheese and crisp Granny Smith apple sandwich I made yesterday with fresh slices of whole wheat oatmeal honey bread just doesn’t do it justice. This sandwich just didn’t want to be photographed. The cheese and apples wanted to ooze out between the bread slices when I tried to handle it and the cheese coagulated faster than I could take pictures so here you have it…an uninspiring photo of one very delicious sandwich. You can see, however, how beautifully the bread browned when I sauteed the sammy in a little butter and the taste and texture of whole thing were delicious. I quickly gave up on the picture taking and ate the sandwich for lunch.
I have found some great bread recipes on King Arthur Flour’s website. I recently bought a bag of their white whole wheat flour and wanted to make a good sandwich loaf so this is the recipe I chose. I like the inclusion of rolled oats and honey and was impressed that it got a 5 star review from 69 of the 71 commenters. I have never heard of maple sugar and read in the reviews that substituting brown sugar works just as well.
Several weeks ago I made KA’s Cinnamon Swirl Bread (it made the best french toast) and the loaves fell during the last 15 minutes of baking. The help line person told me it was probably due to over rising so that is something I watch closely now. The whole wheat dough rose quickly and reached this stage in about 45 minutes.
This bread smelled so wonderful while it was in the oven. There is nothing like that aroma of baking bread. My loaves would have come out the same size if I had taken a minute to weigh them on my little digital scale , but I’ll remember next time. I brushed the hot loaves with a little melted butter. My bread baking skills are slowly coming along with the help of great products from King Arthur Flour and Bob’s Red Mill. Both companies offer excellent customer service so if I do have problems there are always very knowledgeable people available to help me fix them. I recently visited the Red Mill Store and will take you on a little tour very soon. This recipe is definitely a keeper. I hope you will try it.
- 2 cups boiling water
- 1 cup rolled oats
- ½ cup maple sugar
- 1 tablespoon honey
- ¼ cup (1/2 stick) butter
- 1 tablespoon kosher salt
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 tablespoon instant yeast
- 1½ cups King Arthur 100% White Whole Wheat Flour
- 4 cups King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour
- In a large mixing bowl, combine the water, oats, maple sugar, honey, butter, salt and cinnamon. Let cool to lukewarm.
- Add the yeast and flours, stirring to form a rough dough. Knead (about 10 minutes by hand, 5 to 7 minutes by machine) until the dough is smooth and satiny. Transfer the dough to a lightly greased bowl, cover the bowl with lightly greased plastic wrap, and allow the dough to rise for 1 hour.
- Divide the dough in half, and shape each half into a loaf. Place the loaves in two greased 8½ x 4½-inch bread pans. Cover the pans with lightly greased plastic wrap and allow the loaves to rise till they've crowned about 1 inch over the rim of the pan, about 1 hour.
- Bake the loaves in a preheated 360°F oven for 33 minutes.* Remove them from the oven when they're golden brown, and the interior registers 190°F on an instant-read thermometer. Yield: 2 sandwich loaves.
- *If your oven can't be set at 360°F, set it at 350°F and bake the bread for 35 to 40 minutes.
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Fresh Slices of Whole Wheat Oatmeal Bread
If you think you have seen this post before, you aren’t seeing things. When I was working on it the middle of last week I hit the “publish” button instead of the “preview” button and it went flying off into cyberspace before I could stop it. Unfortunately I did this late at night so the half finished post was on my blog until I saw it the next morning. I even got a few comments from readers who must have thought I had lost my marbles. They were very kind and didn’t mention that my post had no text and no recipe. I was able to delete the post but it still shows up on blogrolls. I guess there is nothing that can be done about that other than me being more careful in the future.
I love Bob’s Red Mill products, especially now that I can get them at my local Big Lots!
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Nice, very nice!!!
I love KAF because of all the hand holding they’ll do. I need it!
There’s not much better than the smell of homemade bread.
I’ve thought about making this recipe before, I’m curious about the cinnamon. Do you taste it? I think it’d be tempted to leave it out.
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I thought about it for a minute before I added the cinnamon. I was a little concerned about the flavor with savory sandwich fillings, but the flavor doesn’t stand out and blends well with the honey and brown sugar. This makes the best grilled cheese sandwiches! And toast too! I’m sure you could leave it out with no problem. Thanks for your comment.
Cathy recently posted..Whole Wheat Honey Oatmeal Bread
Making bread is a passion with me; I saved this one. Thank you for bringing back the cinnamon brad; you had posted while I was on holidays and for got all about it. Will try it this weekend when teh grand kids come to visit. We do not have King Arthur her but love Bob’s Red Mill products. I think your sandwich looks wonderful.
Rita
Thanks, Rita. It was delicious. We love Bob’s Red Mill here too. I went to the store here in Portland and will do a post about it soon.
Cathy recently posted..Whole Wheat Honey Oatmeal Bread
This bread looks beautiful! I love King Arthur Flour. It is the best. I also like the addition of oats and honey, taste good and good for us, too. xo
I love seeing loaves of freshly baked bread. I have the KA Whole Wheat White flour and I use it as often as I can. Have used Bob’s, too and my baked goods turned out really well (think I used the spelt flour recently.) I want to try this recipe…how good is this toasted with a little butter?
Wow, I’m not much of a baker but I might have to attempt this. It looks sooo yummy! And sounds great for a grilled cheese sandwich.
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I think your sandwich looks really good Cathy. I’ve photographed a grilled sandwich before and it looked pathetic.
Your bread looks amazing, and I know your kitchen smelled that way as well as it baked. you are right, nothing smells as good as bread baking in the oven. I’ll be trying this soon.
The ingredients in your sandwich sound very tasty Cathy, I’ll have to try apple! It’s fun to play with making breads and adding oats is a favorite of mine-enjoy:@)
I’ve done that before, too. DOH! 😉 This looks like a fabulous recipe…and it holds up so well as sandwich bread. I am completely enamored by that sandwich – wish I could reach in and snatch it!
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I think that sandwich is extremely inspiring and I will make a version of it tomorrow for lunch. Looks amazing! The bread looks delicious.
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Yes, I saw it but when I came in, it’s already gone lol! Happened to me before so worries there. This bread looks awesome with the sandwich! I will bookmark this for my next bread baking session. I love to try new bread recipes:)
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What a tasty sandwich….the bread….WOW. It looks so great!!!! Believe me, I know all about hitting the wrong button and then stressing about what to do next. It’s all okay….we all do it.
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Cathy, your breads never cease to amaze me! They are always perfect. I have to try this; I’ve had no luck with simple (ha!) sandwich bread. Then I need some of that ham and cheddar!
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Two tasty & home – made bread always tastes the best,…usually though! 🙂
I love your breads a lot so I am going to make them soon! That sandwich rocks too! Yummmmmmmmmmm!
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I guess the saying that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” really is true because I love your photo. I think the oozing cheese and apples is what first caught my eye.
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Perfect for morning breakfast with the family!
I could also try this to fill my kid’s meal box.
So yummy!
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Howdy Cathy! Oh your bread looks really invting. I’m a bread person and love anything yeasted as well. Thanks for the lovely recipe.
Hoep you’re having a great day, dear.
Blessings
Kristy
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What a great combination!
I love bread. Love love love. Any kind of bread. But I’ve never made it at home! Definitely on my to-do list!
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Thank you for posting this on your site! It’s been my favorite bread recipe, yet, instead of copying it down on paper, I simply bookmarked the KAF site. I was terribly surprised, then, when I found today that the recipe was no longer there. You have saved my day! 🙂