Red River Cereal Bread

Teresa Ambra

Red River Cereal Bread is outstanding. This wonderful, savory dinner bread is so easy since it's whipped up in the breadmaker! The recipe originally comes from the back of the box of Red River Cereal. Uses vital wheat gluten in order to get the heavy wheat flour to raise nicely so it's soft and fluffy rather than heavy and dense. Excellent home-baked bread for breakfast or dinner.

3 from 7 votes

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Prep Time 10

Cook Time 4

Total Time 14

Course Breads, Rolls and Muffins, Breakfast

Cuisine American

Servings

Calories 95 kcal

Equipment

1 2-pound breadmaker
measuring cups
measuring spoons
1 pastry brush to brush bread with melted butter after baking
1 electric knife preferred, or sharp bread knife to slice bread after baking

Ingredients

1 1/3 cups hot water
2 tbsp. canola oil or avocado oil (preferred)
1 1/2 cups unbleached Bread flour
1 1/3 cups Whole Wheat flour
1/2 cup Red River Cereal
1 1/2 tsp. salt
2 tbsp. honey or brown sugar
1 1/2 tsp. bread machine yeast
4 tsp. vital wheat gluten

Instructions

Add ingredients to bread machine loaf pan in order given.
Select whole wheat cycle.
Makes 2 lb. loaf.
Allow bread to cool 15 minutes in oven before removing from canister.
Brush top and sides of bread with melted butter to prevent crust from hardening.
Allow bread to sit out about 30 minutes before slicing down in slices.

Notes

NOTE: Red River Cereal Bread is intended to be made in a breadmaker and not for use as a regular hand-kneaded bread loaf. If you try to use this recipe and hand-knead the bread, you will have to increase the bread flour considerably.

NOTE: I used honey rather than brown sugar in the recipe, but either works fine.

NOTE FROM PRODUCT MANUFACTURER: If you grew up on Red River cereal, then this bread will bring back memories of goodness steaming in the kitchen. Except that now, it’s baking in the bread machine. Serve toasted as a breakfast bread lightly drizzled with honey, and you’ll give new meaning to toast. Vital wheat gluten is necessary for many breadmaker recipes using whole wheat flour as yeast alone is not enough to get the dough to rise since the flour is so dense.

NOTE: If you can't find Red River Cereal (it is a Canadian product), cracked wheat can probably be substituted quite satisfactorily.

NOTE: While this recipe produced a lovely loaf of bread in my kitchen, others have had difficulty with the texture. You may need to increase the bread flour (NOT wheat flour) by 1/2 to 1 cup.

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.

Recipe adapted from a Red River Cereal recipe.

Nutrition

Calories: 95kcalCarbohydrates: 17gProtein: 3gFat: 2gSaturated Fat: 0.2gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 1gTrans Fat: 0.01gSodium: 145mgPotassium: 57mgFiber: 2gSugar: 1gVitamin A: 1IUVitamin C: 0.01mgCalcium: 6mgIron: 1mg

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