Multi-Grain Honey Wheat Bread

A "partial" bread machine recipe. Start in the machine, and finish in your oven. Can also use a traditional mixer with a dough hook, if you wish.

• Ready In: 2 hrs 10 mins
• Yields: 1 loaf

Ingredients

• 1 1⁄2 teaspoons  yeast
• 1⁄4 cup  nonfat dry milk powder
• 1 1⁄2 cups bread flour
• 1 1⁄2 tablespoons gluten
• 1⁄4 cup oats
• 1⁄2 cup whole wheat flour
• 1⁄4 cup  all-bran cereal, crumbled
• 2  tablespoons wheat germ
• 1⁄4 cup Bulgar wheat
• 1  tablespoon flax seed
• 1 1⁄2 teaspoons sea salt
• 2  tablespoons honey
• 3  tablespoons  grapeseed oil
• 1  cup water
•  beaten egg (for top, optional)
•  flax seed (for top, optional)
•  oats (for top, optional)
•  wheat germ (for top, optional)

Directions

1. Place ingredients into bread machine in appropriate order.
2. Set machine to"manual" to knead dough.
3. After manual bread machine cycle, remove machine hook from dough, and turn dough into a greased loaf pan and punch down.
4. Let rise until doubled in size (about an hour).
5. Keeping dough in same pan in which it rose, brush with beaten egg and sprinkle with extra flax seed, oats, and/or wheat germ (optional), and allow dough to re-rise about ten minutes.
6. Bake at 375 degrees F for 20-25 minutes until nicely browned.
7. Remove pan from oven, and turn bread out of pan to cool on a wire rack.
8. Serve with an herb butter, if you desire (I have 3 different herb butter recipes available:#27286,#27297, and#27739).