Wheat Bread Recipe

I use the Bosch recipe and have loved it. Because the Kitchen Aid is a little smaller the proportions have been adjusted in the lower recipe.

Wheat Bread, Carmen Harrison
Bosch—6 loaves
6 c. warmer water – (not burning hot but warmer that luke warm)
2/3 c. oil
2/3c. honey (or brown sugar)
6 c. whole wheat flour
¼ c. gluten
3 Tbsp. dough enhancer
3 Tbsp. instant yeast
Mix together and then stop (should be still be liquid) cover with the lid. Allow to rest/sponge (activates the yeast) till it doubles in size (about comes to the top of the lid).
Mix down and add:
1 ½ Tbsp. Salt (1 Tbsp and 1 ½ tsp.)
6 c flour, I scrape the sides after 6 cups and then continue to add flour till dough pulls away from the side. I don’t measure how much extra I put in, but it’s better to be a little sticky than too dry. Do not over knead. I have found that it pumps air into the bread and it tends to dry out more.
Pull out arm and cover with a dry towel and let it raise till it to spills over the side. Tip it out onto an oiled surface and form loaves. Allow the loaves to rise to desired loaf height. Then bake at 350 for 25 minutes. I set my timer for 20 minutes and check. Should be golden brown on top. Ovens may vary.
Tip out and butter the top. To freeze: Allow to cool for 10 minutes then put WARM bread in plastic gallon bag and put in the freezer. The heat from the bread crystallizes to ice within the loaf and when you go to defrost, makes the bread more moist and less dry.

To exchange dough enhancer for white bean flour:
Delete dough enhancer add: ½ cup WHITE bean flour and increase gluten to ½ cup.









Wheat Bread, Carmen Harrison
Kitchen Aid—4 loaves
4 c. warmer water – (not burning hot but warmer that luke warm)
1/3 c. oil
1/3 c. honey (or brown sugar)
4 c. whole wheat flour
2 Tbsp. gluten
2 Tbsp. dough enhancer
2 Tbsp. instant yeast
Mix together and then stop (should be still be liquid). Allow mixture to rest/sponge (activates the yeast) till it doubles in size; about comes to the top of the bowl.
Mix down and add:
1 Tbsp. Salt
4 c flour, I scrape the sides after 4 cups and then continue to add flour till dough pulls away from the side. I don’t measure how much extra I put in, but it’s better to be a little sticky than too dry. Do not over knead. I have found that it pumps air into the bread and it tends to dry out more.
Pull out arm/beeters and cover with a dry towel and let it raise till it to spills over the side. Tip it out onto an oiled surface and form loaves. Allow the loaves to raise to desired loaf height. Then bake at 350 for 25 minutes. I set my timer for 20 minutes and check. Should be golden brown on top. Ovens may vary.
Tip out and butter the top. To freeze: Allow to cool for 10 minutes then put WARM bread in plastic gallon bag and put in the freezer. The heat from the bread crystallizes to ice within the loaf and when you go to defrost, makes the bread more moist and less dry.

To exchange dough enhancer for white bean flour:
Delete dough enhancer add: 1/3 cup WHITE bean flour and increase gluten to 1/3 cup.

Love Jenny!

On our way back up to our house we stopped by to see my good friend Jenny who I knew in Rexburg. She moved to SLC. We miss you!

Alex got to see one of his very best friends, Devin. He got to talk Pokemon for an hour and a half!

Road Trip!

Natalie and Zachary hanging out in the backseat. We made the long trek down to St. George, Utah. We had a lot of fun and good memeries. My brother Dave and his wife Mindy finalized the adoption of their cute little girl, Miley and we were headed down for the sealing and blessing.

While we were in St. George we climbed and explored on the red rocks. My brother Tom's kid, Christian and Karlee thought they could climb just about anything. We watched them from down below.

My Mom and Dad, brother, Tom and his wife Cindi and all of our children loved exploring everywhere. Natalie thought she could climb anywhere and I was just trying to keep up with her.

Cool Cave.

The reason we came. The St. George temple was beautiful and I thought Miley did great through the sealing. This is all the family that came.

Dave, Mindy and Miley in front of the temple. There was such a special feeling there and I am so glad we could be there to share the day with them.

My cousin, Anne, is the best. She played hostess to all of us Smith's and our kids. She made the best food and was so sweet about everything. She took us to a really cool park that even big kids could play on. I classify myself as a big kid in this instance.

Here is Alex and Anne's daughter, Marissa climbing the rope wall. That was another plus. The kids played together so well, we hardly saw them. Awesome! I hope Anne's house survived. Thanks Anne!!

I was trying to twirl myself around, cool stuff.

One of our stops on our way down south was to visit the Draper Temple open house. Zachary was excited that he got to ride a bus to get there

Here we are on a snowy day at the Draper Temple. It was great to go and see.

We also stopped at Cabellas in Lehi, Ut. It is a outdoor sporting goods store, but for our purposes it was a museum. They have a walk through fish aquarium and stuffed animals everywhere. It is really cool. Worth the visit.

Alex checking out the fish. We had such a wonderful time and got to see lots of friends and family. It reminded me of how blessed I am to know such wonderful people.

The Biggest Bonk in the World

Okay, I feel bad for the kid, but can you say "Klingon" from Star Trek?
Alex and Zachary had a huge crash. It has been 2 weeks and there are still black-eye marks. Not pretty.

Slices Nicely, Nicely Thank You

This is my second really good batch of bread. Yeah!! I was thinking that I always post about my kids and I thought, what do I do all day? Take care of kids. But I do have other interests, I just never write or post about them. Thus the picture of bread. Sean totally surprised me (which is hard to do) with a Bosch mixer and a wheat grinder for Christmas. I couldn't believe he spent so much on ME! I had been bugging him a couple years ago that if we have all this wheat, we should have wheat grinder (makes sense). I was into making bread at the time. Then I had some disasterous loafs and I couldn't bring myself to make it again. So when Sean got the mixer for me I figured I better use it. We have enjoyed homemade whole wheat bread the last couple weeks. Thanks to my cousin's wife, Carmen, who gave me a fool-proof recipe for wheat bread, my bread has come out nicely. It is not crumbley or heavy (problems I have had in the past) and it makes great sandwiches. I have been thrilled and it is not even that hard. So there it is, I am trying to be domestic. See Mom, even if I can't sew, I can make bread.

Cutie Pie

There are lots of pictures of Natalie. What can I say she is the only girl. She is starting to say cheese for the camera.

Thanks to Anne and Aunt Sharon (who is an avid shopper), Natalie can look so cute. What can I say it is so fun to dress up a little girl!! Sorry boys, it's just not as fun to put pants and a shirt on you.

Surprisingly, she kept her hat on at church. She refuses to leave any ponytails or anything in her hair longer than 5 minutes so the hat has been great.