100% Genuine Wholewheat Recipes for Bread Machine?

EvenI

Tue, Jun 08 2010, 1:37 pm

Help!

I bought a bread machine with the primary intention of using it for weekday wholewheat bread and saving money on the many bought loaves that we go through. White bread is not very useful to us,and 50% whole wheat is not much better, particularly for one member of the family. Every wholewheat bread machine recipe that I have found after searching, including the one in the manual (only one recipe per cycle is provided) is for 50% wholewheat. I find it annoying that the machine claims to have a wholewheat cycle and then only provides a recipe for half and half. Is there some special reason why a bread machine cannot make wholewheat bread properly? Have I wasted my money? Does anyone have a recipe for non-sweet whole wheat bread not containing white flour? Or even for 70/80% wholewheat? Oh, and the recipe should be parve (all the recipes in the manual call for milk powder or milk).

sky

Tue, Jun 08 2010, 2:25 pm

I make 100% WW bread and challah in my machine.

Even if it calls for 50% WW I do all WW.
I find that adding gluten to the recipe makes it lighter

SorGold

Tue, Jun 08 2010, 2:38 pm

I make 100% whole wheat flour in my bread maker. Just try and use "white" whole wheat flour. Its just a different variety of wheat that is more similar to white flour when ground up. I use it for absolutely everything including baking.

Makes 2LB loaf - about 10 - 12 slices
1 1/4 cup + 2 TBS water
3 TBS oil
2 1/4 tsp salt
1/4 cup + 2 TBL brown sugar ( I use less and you can prob use a sugar substitute for most. The yeast just needs some real sugar to activate)
4 C whole wheat flour
1 TBS dry yeast

I leave out the milk powder and sometimes replace 3 TBS of liquid for soymilk, although I dont really notice a difference.

mommalah

Tue, Jun 08 2010, 2:45 pm

I'v been making 100% ww bread recipes in the bread machine for 2-3 months now and still have not found that perfect loaf. I hear your frustration about them saying the recipe is whole wheat only to find that it's only half. I'm going to try the last poster's recipe today and see how it goes.

shevi82

Tue, Jun 08 2010, 2:49 pm

Here is my recipe-works in the morphy Richards bread machine

2 tsp. salt
6-7 cups flour
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 Tbls dry yeast
2 1/2 cups warm water
1/2 cup oil

Good luck

Tue, Jun 08 2010, 2:52 pm

shevi82 wrote:

Here is my recipe-works in the morphy Richards bread machine

2 tsp. salt
6-7 cups flour
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 Tbls dry yeast
2 1/2 cups warm water
1/2 cup oil

Good luck

Can this recipe be halved? My bread machine only takes 5 cups of flour...

EvenI

Tue, Jun 08 2010, 3:33 pm

Thanks everyone. Sounds like it wouldn't be a disaster to use any recipe I like and substitute wholewheat for the white part. SorGold and shevi82, your recipes have a lot more sugar in them than I would want to use. We like our bread not to be sweet at all. I don't mind a tablespoon or two to help activate the yeast, but that's about it. If you take most of the sugar out of a recipe, do you need to make other adjustments?

mommalah

Tue, Jun 08 2010, 4:35 pm

shevi82 wrote:

Here is my recipe-works in the morphy Richards bread machine

2 tsp. salt
6-7 cups flour
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 Tbls dry yeast
2 1/2 cups warm water
1/2 cup oil

Good luck

Will it be ok in other bread machines?

sky

Tue, Jun 08 2010, 6:44 pm

Whole wheat bread

[3 1/3 cup whole wheat flour and 1/4 cup vital wheat gluten]
or [2 1/2 cup WW and 1 cup regular flour]
1 egg
1 cup water
1/4 cup oil
1/4 cup honey
1 1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp yeast

I like it best with King Arthur flour

ChossidMom

Wed, Nov 30 2011, 4:20 pm

SorGold wrote:

I made this recipe today with SPELT flour and I used the quick program on the bread machine. It came out dense but so amazingly DELICIOUS. We couldn't believe how good it tasted!!!!!!!!!