Oat bread please

[Guest guest]

My roomie went shopping and brought home the wrong kind of oatmeal.

Instead of the regular quick-cooking oats, he got steel cut. I like

porridge, but I'm wondering if anyone has any breads, quick or yeast

that will use it.

[Guest guest]

This recipe is from Anna Thomas, author of The New Vegetarian Epicure (Great

book!!) http://www.vegetarianepicure.com/newrecipes/

 

My family loves this bread. I do tinker with it, adding in more whole wheat

and less white flour. This however is her recipe as written:

 

 

 

OATMEAL BREAD (bread machine formula)

 

1 3/4 cup nonfat milk

3 1/4 cups white flour (all purpose, or bread flour)

1 cup whole wheat flour

4 Tbs. light brown sugar

1 1/2 tsp. salt

1 Tbs. vital wheat gluten*

1 cup rolled oats

3 Tbs. butter

1 envelope active dry yeast (2 1/4 tsp.)

 

The important thing to remember about baking in a bread machine is that

accurate measuring is far more important than it is in traditional baking.

Because you won't be kneading the dough by hand, you won't be feeling your

way with the texture and adding a bit more flour as needed until it's just

right - so measure with care. I pour my flour into a bowl, scoop it out with

a dipping measure and slide the excess off the top with the back of a knife

blade. This gives me a very reliable cup. Either packed flour or sifted

flour would throw the measurement off.

 

Put all the ingredients into the baking pan of your bread machine, beginning

with the milk, continuing through the dry ingredients, and cutting the

butter into pieces. Make a small well in the dry ingredients and pour the

yeast into that. Proceed according to the directions of your machine.

 

I use a basic wheat bread setting on my machine. If yours doesn't have that,

use whichever setting is recommended for a denser loaf.

 

This makes 1 large loaf of bread, perfect for breakfast, great for

sandwiches, and very nice toasted the next day if you can keep it that long.

 

 

*Vital wheat gluten can be bought in most health food stores, or in

supermarkets with better selections of flour.

 

 

 

 

 

You can also make a pie out of oatmeal, sort of like a pecan pie. If you

want that recipe, I'll send it along.

 

 

 

Melanie