MMMM. It smells GOOD in here!

I am baking bread this morning (along with doing laundry, cleaning house, working in the office, and visiting a friend with a broken foot at some point...) and it reminded me that several people wanted this recipe.

My friend who gave me the recipe is a Woodbury now, originally a Stewart, so if you recognize this recipe from somewhere else, it may have a different name!

I use a Bosch kitchen mixer to mix and knead the bread. I'm sure a KitchenAid or any other large or stand mixer would work. It is a LOT of dough!

WOODBURY BOSCH WHEAT BREAD

For the very best whole wheat bread:
(In Linda’s opinion)

Grind fresh wheat flour-about 1/2 of a #10 can
from LDS Cannery. (5-6 C. of wheat kernals.)

To: 4 7/8 C. water, quite warm, in Bosch mixer bowl, add

3 3/4 T. yeast
3/4 cup honey and
3/4 C. molasses. Mix and let sit until yeast proofs.

Add:
3/4 C. oil
2 ½ T. salt ( I usually use less than this.)
2-4 T. Dough Enhancer (available at beprepared.com or kitchen stores)
2 T. Vital Wheat Gluten (available as above)
12 C. freshly ground whole wheat flour,
four cups at a time, mixing well after each
addition. Add up to a cup more if dough is too
sticky. (I never add the extra.)

Knead ten minutes in Bosch. Transfer to large bowl and
let rise till double in size. Punch down. Transfer to four medium-
size bread pans and let rise again. Bake 10 minutes at 400 degrees,
watching carefully that bread doesn’t burn on top. Turn heat down to
350 degrees and bake 10-15 more minutes. (In my oven I have to lay a piece of foil over the tops of the loaves after the first ten minutes or they get ALMOST burned.)

We love this bread because you don't have to put anything on it to make it taste good. It is sweet and satisfying just by itself.

Also, I don't always put the dough conditioner and/or wheat gluten in it. It is a smaller, denser loaf without them, or lighter and higher (larger slices) if I use them - just depends on what we're in the mood for!

At the moment, I can't think of anything that smells better than baking bread if you are hungry!