The Best Homemade Whole Wheat Bread in a Bread Machine

How to make the best bread machine whole wheat bread - This simple and easy recipe makes a basic crusty loaf with no kneading. Uses a combination of all purpose flour and whole wheat flour for a smooth, tasty loaf that's healthy.

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Somewhere between my need to avoid unnatural food additives, my desire to cook and eat more like my grandma, and Joe and my attempts to live more frugally, I talked my husband into making our own bread.

From scratch.

It took months of convincing. He likes the bread from the grocery store, and he isn't into making more work for himself.

After a lot of discussion with Amy Clark from MomAdvice, I posted a request on my local FreeCycle board for a bread machine. Only a few days passed before an offer came in, and Joe went to pick it up. And then it sat in our dining room for seven months, until the car crash forced us to become more serious about being frugal.

$4 for a loaf of our favorite bread seems wasteful and we don't really have that kind of money right now.

So, we are now committed to having a better, slower, more frugal lifestyle, and we are making our own bread.

Of course, when I saw we, I really mean that I'm lying on the couch with an ice pack while Joe follows the recipe I gave him, but that's just as good as doing it myself, right?

Our first couple of attempts at homemade whole wheat bread were miserable failures. We ate them, but they were barely edible.

Then we found the whole wheat bread recipe that Phoebe (who did not use a bread machine) had adapted from Crystal (who did use a bread machine). We made a few changes to reflect the ingredients we had on hand as well as our taste preferences.

We were eager to try our bread, so we smeared real butter on the warm bread and topped it with a dollop of my homemade apple butter. It was comfort food at its finest.

How to make the best homemade whole wheat bread in a bread machine

1. Layer the ingredients in the bread machine according to manufacturer's instructions. In our machine, we put the yeast in the bottom with warm water, topped by the dry ingredients (sugar, whole wheat flour, unbleached white flour, salt, and powdered milk), and then add the wet ingredients (melted butter and vinegar) last, then shut the lid and turn it on using the Light setting.

That's it. I'm not kidding. When the machine beeps, we open the lid and eat the most delicious and light wheat bread we've ever had.

I really like wheat bread with crunchy bits like seeds, so I am eager to experiment with this recipe and ingredients to see if we can get that kind of texture going.

Perfect Homemade Whole Wheat Bread

How to make the best bread machine whole wheat bread - This simple and easy recipe makes a basic crusty loaf with no kneading. Uses a combination of all purpose flour and whole wheat flour for a smooth, tasty loaf that's healthy.

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Ingredients

  

• 1 ¼ cups warm water not hot or cold
• 1 tablespoon instant yeast
• ⅓ cup sugar
• 1 ½ cups whole wheat flour
• 1 ¼ cups unbleached white flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 tablespoons dry nonfat milk
• 1 tablespoon butter melted
• 1 tablespoon vinegar

Instructions

 

• Layer in bread machine according to manufacturer's instructions. In our machine, we put the yeast in the bottom, topped by the dry ingredients. We add the wet ingredients last, then shut the lid and turn it on using the Light setting.

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