Great Harvest Honey Whole Wheat Bread Copycat

• Vegetarian

• Condiments

  • 3/4 cup Honey

• Baking & Spices

  • 3 tbsp Fast active-dry yeast
  • 1 tbsp Salt
  • 10 cups Whole wheat flour

• Liquids

  • 4 cups Water

Found on sixsistersstuff.com

Description

Ingredients

• 4 cups very warm water (see note below)
• 3 tablespoons fast active-dry yeast
• 3/4 cup honey
• 1 tablespoon salt
• 10-11 cups whole wheat flour (freshly ground if possible)

Directions

• In a large bowl, add water, yeast, honey and salt. Let it rest for 5 minutes (or until the yeast foams).
• Add in flour 1 cup at a time, kneading it between each cup of flour added if you are making it by hand. If you are making it with a mixer (like a Bosch or Kitchen Aid), use a paddle attachment and just let it mix while you add the flour.
• Knead bread for about 5 minutes. If the dough is sticky, add only enough flour so that the dough barely pulls away from the bowl. Every time I make bread, the amount of flour I use varies - humidity and elevation will make a big difference too. I usually use between 10-11 cups.
• Preheat oven to 170 degrees; turn the oven off, and let dough rise inside the oven for 15 minutes.
• Carefully remove bowl from oven. Spray the back of your hand with cooking spray and punch down the dough. Form into a log and cut in half, forming two larger-sized loaves. Put into 2 greased loaf pans.
• Again, preheat oven (if it’s not warm anymore) to 170 degrees and let the dough in the pans rise in the oven for 20-30 minutes, or until the dough doubles in size.
• Remove dough from oven and set oven temperature to 350 degrees. Once oven is pre-heated, place the loaves back in the oven and bake for 30 minutes.
• Remove from pans immediately and let cool completely on a cooling rack.