Daily Bread

Ingredients

 * 2 cups whole wheat "bread" flour
 * 2 cups unbleached white all purpose flour
 * ½ teaspoon salt
 * 1 tablespoon dry baking yeast
 * 2 tablespoons blackstrap molasses or honey (optional)
 * 2 tablespoons gluten flour (optional, rises much, much better)

Directions

 * 1) Mix the dry ingredients in a large bowl.
 * 2) Add the honey or molasses.
 * 3) Begin adding water in small amounts, kneading with your hands until a bread dough consistency (smooth, not sticky-wet) is achieved.
 * 4) Kneading should take approximately half an hour.
 * 5) Tom usually kneads until the Simpsons is over! Form and smooth the bread into a suitable loaf shape for your bread pan.
 * 6) Place the loaf in the pan, cover the pan and let it sit in a warm spot for an hour and a half.
 * 7) If you kneaded it for a full half hour it should rise very nicely.
 * 8) Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.
 * 9) Lightly flour the outside of the loaf once more to make sure it doesn't stick.
 * 10) Bake the loaf for 50 minutes.