Whole wheat machine bread

[Anonymous]

I make a very nice French bread with my machine, but I would like my family to have more whole wheat. Does anybody know a good recipe, where the bread is still spongy? If not 100% whole wheAt, part of it.
My whole wheat breads are too dense for our taste.

[Anonymous]

Whole wheat bread will always be fairly dense. The closer to all whole wheat the denser.

I don't have a bread machine, but bake bread about every other day. I use the "no-knead" method that Mark Bittman and Jim Lahey made famous. You mix the ingredients, let sit for 12-24 hours, then do a short second rise, then bake in a preheated cast iron dutch oven. The bread is fabulous. Using all white flour is amazing, but the bread is still very good to me using 2 parts whole wheat to 1 part white. You can also easily add stuff like raisins and walnuts or olives.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/08/dining/08mini.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

[Anonymous]

My bread machne has a recipe for whole wheat bread that uses 1/2 white unbleached and 1/2 whole wheat flour. It also calls for addition of gluten, which helps the bread avoid collapse during baking process.

I'd google bread machine recipes. You're bound to find something.

[Anonymous]

You have to add extra gluten when you make whole wheat

[Anonymous]

I am a fan of using my bread maker to knead and make the dough and then bake it in my oven so I don't get that weird bread machine loaf. I have had success with breads that way...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You have to add extra gluten when you make whole wheat

This is what I do, our whole wheat is nice and soft

[Anonymous]

http://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/100-whole-wheat-sandwich-bread-recipe

That's from King Arthur Flour, mix in machine but bake in oven. I have made a similar one from their cookbook and it's very good.

Also check out KAF Whole Grain Baking book; Beatrice Ojakangas Whole Grain Baking by Machine or Hand (may not be exact title but close); and the Laurel's Kitchen Bread Book, which has a few machine recipes and tons of technique. Finally, More Bread Machine Magic has some decent whole grain recipes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You have to add extra gluten when you make whole wheat

This is what I do, our whole wheat is nice and soft

Yup. My recipe is from the Man's Guide to Bread Machine Baking - it's surprisingly good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:http://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/100-whole-wheat-sandwich-bread-recipe

That's from King Arthur Flour, mix in machine but bake in oven. I have made a similar one from their cookbook and it's very good.

Also check out KAF Whole Grain Baking book; Beatrice Ojakangas Whole Grain Baking by Machine or Hand (may not be exact title but close); and the Laurel's Kitchen Bread Book, which has a few machine recipes and tons of technique. Finally, More Bread Machine Magic has some decent whole grain recipes.

The above KAF recipe is great for a soft whole wheat bread!