MyWeightLossForLife.com

Whole Wheat Molasses Bread, Yum!

This is a great bread machine recipe, and it smells and tastes fabulous. I realize molasses may sound strange in bread, but it gives the bread a wonderful flavor and scent. I promise, you’re going to think this is fantastic.

Put the ingredients in the bread machine in this order.

• 1 1/2 cups of warm water
• two tablespoons of butter or margarine, at room temperature
• 1 teaspoon of salt
• four tablespoons of molasses
• 3 cups of whole wheat flour
• 4 teaspoons of vital wheat gluten
• two tablespoons of bread machine yeast

Bake on your bread machine’s whole wheat cycle.

Note that this is a pretty generic whole wheat recipe, so if you have one you like already, simply substitute the molasses for either the sugar or honey (whichever your recipe calls for).

If the whole wheat is a bit dense for you, try substituting one cup of regular bread flour for one cup of the whole wheat. If you go with this option, then cut the amount of wheat gluten. If you don’t, your bread is likely to rise too much and overflow the pan (ask me how I know that…)

I haven’t tried letting this sit overnight in the bread machine’s timed cycle, so I can’t speak to how well that works. If any of you try it, let me know how it goes.