Homemade Wheat Flour Bread. Flour a flat surface and knead with whole wheat flour until not real sticky - just pulling away from the counter, but still sticky to touch. This Best Homemade One Hour Whole Wheat Bread is made with such simple ingredients — whole wheat flour, warm water, yeast, honey, oil and salt. This bread is filled with all natural ingredients and no sugar!
Remove the bread from the oven and turn it out of the pan onto a rack to cool. For a soft, flavorful crust, rub the top of the warm bread with a stick of butter. Store the bread, well wrapped, at room temperature for several days; freeze for longer storage. You can cook Homemade Wheat Flour Bread using 8 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Homemade Wheat Flour Bread
- You need 3 cups of Whole Wheat Flour.
- It’s 3 tsp of Instant Dry Yeast.
- Prepare 1.5 tbsp of Sugar.
- You need 1 cup of Warm Milk.
- It’s 3 tbsp of Milk Powder.
- It’s to taste of Salt.
- It’s 1 tsp of Butter (room temperature).
- Prepare as needed of Milk and Butter for brushing.
Also, you have to be careful about increasing salt in yeast breads because salt is a yeast inhibitor. Thanks to a touch of olive oil and milk, this bread has an exceptionally soft and tender crumb - not heavy, dry, or overly dense like some whole wheat loaves can be. Combine yeast, honey, butter, salt, warm water, instant coffee, and cocoa powder in a mixing bowl. Mix with your hands until ingredients form into a ball; transfer it to a floured work surface.
Homemade Wheat Flour Bread instructions
- Take warm milk in mixing bowl. Add sugar and stir well. Then add yeast and mix well. Keep aside this mixture for few minutes for yeast to get activated..
- Then add flour, milk powder and salt to the yeast mixture. Never add salt to yeast directly. Always add salt above the flour. Mix everything well. Add warm milk or water if required. The dough should be like a paste. Then take the dough on the kitchen platform. Knead dough properly for atleast 10 to 15 mins. It will stick to hands and the platform. Use scraper to remove dough and again start kneading. After around 10 mins or so you’ll get non sticky dough..
- Keep this dough in greased bowl and cover with a damp cloth to rise in warm place for about an hour..
- After an hour or so punch the dough to remove air and knead and remove dough on platform. Knead well and make cylindrical shaped dough. Ensure no cracks are there. Place this cylindrical shaped dough in bread loaf greased tin. Cover tin with damp cloth and again keep in warm place to rise for an hour again..
- After an hour brush the top with milk and bake in preheated oven for 35 to 40 mins on 200 degrees. Then remove bread from oven and immediately brush with butter and keep aside to cool down for 10 mins..
- After 10 mins remove bread from tin and cover with damp cloth and let it cool completely. Cut into thin slices once it is cooled completely..
- Flax seeds or sesame seeds can also be added to the dough to make bread more healthy..
Other types of flour (regular whole wheat flour, all-purpose white flour, freshly milled wheat flour, etc.) may be substituted for the white whole wheat flour in this recipe. Just keep in mind that the final flavor and texture of the bread may turn out different. To make bread in a bread machine: Put all of the ingredients into the bread pan in the order listed. Program for basic white bread (or for whole wheat bread, if your machine has a whole wheat setting), and press Start. Remove the bread from the machine when it’s done.