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Wheat Bread, Carris'

Wheat Bread, Carris' — a community recipe on Potlikkr.

Ingredients

• 5.0 lb Bread Flour
• 2.5 lb Whole Wheat Flour
• 2.25 cup Seven Grain Cereal
• 270.0 ml Brown Sugar

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Method (preview)

1. 1

   The recipe I used was modified from Carris' Wheat Bread found on page 36 of The Bread Machine Cookbook III by Donna German. I got a 2-gallon plastic paint bucket and lid from Home Depot, and uncerimoniously dumped the contents of a 5-lb sack of white bread flour into it. I then weighed 2.5 lbs of whole wheat flour and added it to the bucket. I then weighed 3 cups of the mix and found that it weighed 385 grams (0.85 lbs). 7.5 lbs. of flour mix translates to 3405 grams, which, when divided by 385 grams means that that 7.5 lbs of flour mix will make 8.8 loaves. Call it 9. I did. I then multiplied the remaining ingredients by 9 to get the amounts to add. In order to use a measuring cup for measuring the remaining ingredients, I converted the British units to metric, using 5 mL for each Tsp, and 15 mL for each Tbsp.

2. 2

   Since my measuring cups, and yours (don't deny it), are graduated in both British and metric units, I use whichever system best fits my calculations, so excuse the mixture of units. To the flour mix in the bucket I then added: