Description
A delicious bread and very healthy too! I adapted this from oprah magazine.
Ingredients
- Cracked Wheat
- Active Dry Yeast
- Sugar
- Buttermilk
- Unsulphured Molasses
- Honey
- Unsalted Butter
- Kosher Salt
- Sesame Seeds
- Unsalted Sunflower Seeds
- Whole Wheat Flour
- All-purpose Flour
- Cornmeal
Instructions
- Pour 1 1 / 2 cups boiling water into a bowl with the cracked wheat and let stand about 45 minutes to soften
- Drain and squeeze out the excess water
- Sprinkle yeast and sugar into a bowl with 1 / 4 cup warm water
- Stir to dissolve and let stand until foamy, about 10 minutes
- Mix the buttermilk, molasses, honey, and 4 tablespoons butter in a small bowl
- In a large bowl, combine salt, sesame and sunflower seeds, and whole wheat flour
- Add yeast and buttermilk mixtures and stir until smooth
- Add drained cracked wheat and stir to combine
- Using a wooden spoon to mix, add all-purpose flour, 1 / 2 cup at a time
- Stir until soft dough forms
- Turn dough out onto a floured surface and knead until dough is soft and springy, about 7-8 minutes
- Add more flour, 1 tablespoons at a time, if needed
- The dough will be a little bit sticky
- Place dough in a greased bowl
- Turn it in the bowl to grease the top
- Cover with plastic wrap and let the dough rise in a warm spot until doubled in size, about 1 hour and 15 minutes
- Prepare 2 baking sheets by lightly greasing and sprinkling with a thin layer of cornmeal
- Set aside
- Preheat oven to 350
- Gently punch down dough
- Turn out onto lightly floured surface
- Divide into 3 equal portions and shape into 3 round or oval loaves
- Place on prepared pans
- Melt and cool remaining tablespoons butter and spread over tops of loaves
- Sprinkle with a few sunflower seeds
- Cover loosely with plastic wrap and let rise 30 minutes
- Bake in preheated oven for 35-45 minutes until brown
- Cool on racks and eat warm
- Enjoy!