Whole Wheat bread

 Preparation time 2 1/2 hours

Baking time 30 minutes

Level  medium 

There's nothing like a home-baked loaf of bread, I love eating a chunk of the freshly baked loaf with a huge dollop of homemade butter. It takes a few tries to perfect your bread baking skills. The secret is to keep trying. I promise you that it is not difficult. Once you get the desired results you won't want to eat the commercial industrial loaf.

You can try different variations after you perfect your basic bread

.Sharing an easy, never fail loaf of bread

Ingredients:

• Whole wheat 1 cup
• Refined flour 1 cup
• Yeast 1.5 tsp
• Sugar 1 tsp

• Salt 1 tsp
• Milk 1 cup
• Oil/butter 1/4 cup

Method:

• Warm milk ( just warm ) add yeast and sugar
• Cover and keep in a warm place for 20 minutes.
• Milk turns frothy in 20 minutes

• Slowly pour this over the flour mixture to which salt has been added.
• Bring the flour together,(sticky dough)
• Place in a greased container, smear butter/oil 
• Cover and keep in a warm place for 1.5 hours to proof 

• The dough will double in size.
• Remove on a clean counter, dust with dry flour and punch and fold for 10 minutes with both hands till the dough is smooth and firm.( punch and fold and stretch, This activates the Gluten and makes bread soft)

• Now place it in the bread baking mould and smear butter on the top and let it rest for 30 minutes.
• The dough will have risen again.  (secondary proofing)

• Bake it in a preheated oven for 30 minutes at 180 degrees.
• Cool and then slice it.

Note cover with a moist napkin to keep it from drying.

After slicing keep it in an airtight container.