The Whole Earth Cracked Wheat Bread

  • Prep Time: 0 mins
  • Total Time: 0 mins
  • Yield: 2loaves

    • Ingredients

  • 2 2/3 cupswater
  • 1 1/2 cupscracked wheat
  • 1/3 cuphoney
  • 1teaspoonhoney
  • 1teaspoonsalt
  • 2tablespoonsoil
  • 2packagesyeast
  • 2 1/2 cups glutinous flour or 2 1/2 cupsunbleached flour
  • 3cupswhole wheat flour

    • Directions

  • Pour 2 cups boiling water over the cracked wheat.Add the honey reserving 1 teaspoon for later, salt and oil.
  • Cool.
  • Dissolve the yeast in 2/3 cup warm water and add the 1 teaspoon honey.
  • Combine with the cooled cracked wheat mixture.Add the flour and mix thoroughly.
  • Place in a buttered bowl and cover, let rise for 1 hour.
  • Punch down and let rise for another 30 minutes.
  • Punch down and turn out on a floured board.
  • Knead well.
  • Shape into 2 loaves and place in loaf pans.
  • Bake at 350 until golden brown.
  • Check after 30-40 minutes.
  • Check for doneness by tapping on bottom of loaf, if it sounds hollow, it’s done. If not, bake for an additional 5-10 minutes.

    • Reviews

  • “Great bread!I put everything in the BM and then baked at 375for 35 min.Loved how light and airy it was. Great toast in the morning.”

  • “This bread was excellent! Made it for sandwich bread. My boyfriend likes it as panini bread. In short, good recipe Anne! SUPERB!!!”

  • “Love this recipe.It’s the first time I tried a cracked wheat bread and the texture is amazing.This bread is still thick and hearty, while being light and fluffy at the same time.My husband says he doesn’t want me to try out anymore recipes, he’s found his favorite.”

  • “Excellent Bread and even better toasted.Nice change from my regular whole wheat bread.”

  • “Fabulous light textured bread with yummy yummy texture.Let’s just say that a friend of mine gave me a gallon of cracked wheat to use and I was going to give half of it away, but after making this – I’m going to keep all of it!I cut this recipe in half and ran it on the dough cycle then baked it in my stoneware bread pan – amazing!”

  • “This was pretty good bread. It was my first time baking bread and I had to substitute oat groats for cracked wheat so maybe that’s why it wasn’t perfect, but it did taste good.Note to bread newbies: Keep the water temperature at about 100 degrees or you will kill the yeast and your dough will not rise. I found this out the hard way :).”

  • “This was fantastic!I made it in my breadmaker and didn’t have problems with the dough overrunning the pan.It has a nice, nutty taste and good, firm texture.It tastes great with nutella on it or savory foods like the chicken en cassarole I made.”

  • “Quite good tasting.Flour and cracked wheat soaked up water rapidly and required my addition of about 1/2 cup more in order to made into dough that could be kneaded. Excellent with orange marmalade.Alfie”

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