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Cracked Wheat Bread | Can't Stay Out of the Kitchen | this delicious #WholeWheatBread includes honey & #CrackedWheat. It's so easy since it's made in the #breadmaker. Wonderful #bread to serve with soup or chili. We also like to eat it for #breakfast served with jellies or jam. #HomemadeBread #CrackedWheatBread #BreadmakerBread

Cracked Wheat Bread

Teresa Ambra
Cracked Wheat Bread is such a delicious homemade bread recipe. This one uses whole wheat flour and cracked wheat for extra fiber and whole grain goodness. It's much healthier than many whole wheat bread recipes. It's also spectacularly easy since it's made in the breadmaker! We love to serve this bread with soup or chili on cold, winter nights. But it's also good served for breakfast with jam or jelly on top.
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Prep Time 8 minutes
Cook Time 4 hours
Total Time 4 hours 8 minutes
Course Breads, Rolls and Muffins, Breakfast
Cuisine American
Servings 20
Calories 118 kcal

Equipment

  • 1 breadmaker
  • measuring cups
  • measuring spoons
  • 1 pastry brush to brush the bread with butter after it bakes
  • 1 electric knife to cut bread in slices or a sharp bread knife

Ingredients
  

  • 1 1/2 cups hot water
  • 2 tbsp. powdered milk
  • 2 tbsp. Crisco shortening or avocado oil (preferred)
  • 2 tbsp. honey or granulated sugar
  • 1 1/2 tsp. sea salt or kosher salt
  • 1 cup whole wheat flour
  • 2 1/4 cups bread flour NOT regular all-purpose flour
  • 3/4 cup cracked wheat
  • 1 1/4 tsp. bread machine yeast
  • 4 tsp. vital wheat gluten

Instructions
 

  • Measure ingredients into bread canister in order given.
  • Bake on whole wheat setting. Mine takes 4 hours and 10 minutes.
  • Allow to cool about 15 minutes before removing loaf from canister.
  • Butter sides and top of bread with butter to prevent the crust from hardening.
  • Slice down and serve.
  • About 20 half slices.

Notes

NOTE: Homemade bread has no preservatives and must be refrigerated after 2 days.
 
NOTE: all-purpose flour does not contain the necessary gluten to bond the ingredients together as well as bread flour. The bread may turn out crumbly. For best results use bread flour.
 
NOTE: I recommend using Fleischmann's yeast or bread machine yeast in any yeast bread recipe. Red Star yeast just doesn't work as well.
 
NOTE: Cracked wheat is usually found in the cereal sections of Whole Foods stores like Sprouts or Trader Joes. Bob's Red Mill is one of the brands that sells it.
 
Recipe adapted from Black and Decker.
 
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Nutrition

Calories: 118kcalCarbohydrates: 20gProtein: 4gFat: 3gSaturated Fat: 1gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 1gTrans Fat: 0.2gCholesterol: 1mgSodium: 150mgPotassium: 66mgFiber: 2gSugar: 2gVitamin A: 14IUVitamin C: 0.1mgCalcium: 22mgIron: 1mg
Keyword bread, breakfast, brunch
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