Pat's Bread

This recipe was found in an old cook book with no cover. Has the blurb "This recipe is popular with many La Leche League mothers. Extremely quick and easy to prepare (no kneading). Yields two moist nutritious loaves - particularly delicious toasted".

• Ready In: 1 hr 30 mins
• Yields: 2 500g Loaves

Ingredients

• 900  ml warm water
• 1  tablespoon treacle or 1  tablespoon molasses
• 1⁄2 compressed yeast cakes (crumbled) or 1  tablespoon dried yeast
• 900  g  wholemeal flour
• 2  teaspoons salt

Directions

1. Place in a bowl; water, treacle, & Yeast. Leave to stand for a few minutes.
2. Place in a large bowl: flour & salt.
3. Grease two 500g loaf tins well with butter.
4. Beat liquids with a rotary beater and pour into a well in the flour. Mix toghether and place in tins. Leave in a warm place to rise and then bake about 40 minutes at 190'C.
5. If you would like a coarse crunchy loaf, use coarse ground flour and add 1c kibbled wheat ro rye, leaving out about 1/2c flour. Other flours such as rye can be used instead of all or part wholemeal.