Daily Bread

Ingredients

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

Directions

 * Mix the dry ingredients in a large bowl.
 * Add the honey or molasses.
 * Begin adding water in small amounts, kneading with your hands until a bread dough consistency (smooth, not sticky-wet) is achieved.
 * Kneading should take approximately half an hour.
 * Tom usually kneads until The Simpsons is over!
 * Form and smooth the bread into a suitable loaf shape for your bread pan.


 * Place the loaf in the pan, cover the pan and let it sit in a warm spot for an hour and a half.
 * If you kneaded it for a full half hour it should rise very nicely.


 * Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.
 * Lightly flour the outside of the loaf once more to make sure it doesn't stick. * Bake the loaf for 50 minutes.