Wholemeal bread recipe

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Essexboy
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Has anybody out there got a simple, foolproof recipe for a wholemeal loaf, not one for a bread making machine. I enjoy baking but never seem to have a lot of success when I attempt bread making. I am trying to avoid shop prices, as a diabetic, I find that there are only ever special offers on white pap, never wholemeal.
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This is my standard bread, not all wholemeal, but you can change it gradually, once you get going:

1 tbsp salt
1 tbsp honey
400 ml boiling water, mix till salt dissolved. Add
400 ml cold water
200 ml plain yoghurt
2 tsp yeast
2 cups rye meal or graham meal
2 cups rolled oats
700 - 900 g plain flour
Stir as much plain flour into the mix as you can, cover with cloth and leave for a couple of hours till double size.
Now tip the dough out on the table, well floured, and knead as much plain flour into it as you wish, that is: if you want to bake crusty bread, the dough must be stiffer than if you put the loaves into bread tins. Anyway, shape into 2 loaves. Leave to rise for 1 hour, and bake on lowest shelf in oven at 220 degrees (Celsius, not Fahrenheit!) for 30-45 min. If in tins, tip them out unto the tray after 30 min so the bottom and the sides of the loaves get brown.
PS: My oven is electric, if you use a gas oven, you'll have to experiment.
alia
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my bread recipes are in american, so i doubt the exact measures would be helpful, but i have a white flour challah recipe that is my standard-- i substitute whole meal for white in equal measure. i think the reason it never fails me is it uses twice the amount of yeast as the other recipes. (it was the only way i could get a risen loaf in seattle, wa, which is similar to england climate-wise)... and it kept really well, too.
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Dear Elsa,
May I enquire what Graham Meals is?
Would Porridge Oats do?
JB.
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Graham meal is finely ground whole wheat kernels, not sifted. It may be an American expression, sorry. Makes better bread than 'lumpy' wholemeal.
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Essexboy wrote:Has anybody out there got a simple, foolproof recipe for a wholemeal loaf, not one for a bread making machine. I enjoy baking but never seem to have a lot of success when I attempt bread making. I am trying to avoid shop prices, as a diabetic, I find that there are only ever special offers on white pap, never wholemeal.
Regards, Essexboy.
Hi,I have a recipe for a lovely loaf but you need sourdough culture, if you would like some I could post it to you dried and you restart the dried flakes it makes great bread. Don't know how to give you my e-mail don't want to put it up for the cosmos to see, might get some unwanted mail. :?
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