Easy Yeast Bread Recipe with Freshly Milled Flour 🌾
Yeast bread with freshly milled flour is soft, wholesome, and easy to make. Perfect for sandwiches, toast, or enjoying fresh from the oven.
Ingredients
- 4 1/2 - 4 3/4 cups freshly milled flour mill about 3 cups of wheat berries
- 2 cups warm water
- 1 1/8 TB instant yeast 1 TB is fine
- 1/4 cup honey
- 1/4 cup oil
- 1 1/2 tsp salt
Instructions
- Mill about 3 cups of hard white or hard red wheat berries to yield 4 1/2–4 3/4 cups freshly milled flour.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer, combine 2 cups warm water, 1 tablespoon instant yeast, and 1 cup of the freshly milled flour. Mix together.
- Cover and let sit for 15–20 minutes, or until bubbly.
- Add 1/4 cup honey, 1/4 cup oil, 1 1/2 teaspoons salt, and the remaining flour.
- Mix until a soft dough forms and begins pulling away from the sides of the bowl, adding more flour only as needed.
- Knead with the dough hook for 9–10 minutes (or by hand for 15–20 minutes) until the dough is soft, stretchy, and slightly sticky.
- Shape into 1 large 2-pound loaf or 2 small 1-pound loaves and place in greased loaf pans.
- Cover and let rise until the dough is about 1 inch above the rim of the pan (about 30 - 40 minutes)
- Bake at 350°F for 35 minutes, or until golden brown.
- Let cool in the pans for 10 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely before slicing.