Homemade Brown Bread Recipe
Discover the best homemade brown bread recipe – a healthy rustic flavor. Learn how to make soft, nutritious brown bread from scratch. Perfect for a quick, delicious, and hearty homemade loaf.
Servings: 2 loaves
Ingredients
- 2 cups warm water
- 4 1/2 teaspoons active dry yeast
- 2 Tablespoons vegetable shortening
- 1/2 cup molasses
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 1 cup oatmeal
- 6 1/2 cups flour
- olive oil
- baking spray
Instructions
- Mix together warm water, yeast and vegetable shortening.
- Add molasses, salt and 1 cup flour and mix.
- Once mixed add oatmeal and rest of flour.
- Mix together until the dough has come together.
- If the dough is sticky (sticking to your fingers), add a little more flour.
- Place a little olive oil or butter on the top of the dough and cover.
- Allow the dough to rise for 15 minutes.
- Separate into 2 equal portions and form into a loaf.
- Spray the loaf pans with non stick spray or butter.
- Place the loaves into the pans and cover. Allow the loaves to double in size, putting a little butter/oil on top of the loaf. You can sprinkle oats on if desired.
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- Once dough has risen to top of loaf/doubled in size, bake for 35 minutes.
- Remove from the pan.