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Oatmeal honey bread Recipe
 
                            Oatmeal Honey Bread
 
 Recipe By     : Jean Hersey-Woman's Day Encyclopedia of Cookery
 Serving Size  : 1    Preparation Time :0:00
 Categories    : Bread-yeast
 
   Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
 --------  ------------  --------------------------------
    6      cups          Enriched white flour
    2 1/2  teaspoons     salt
    2      Tablespoons   soft butter
      1/2  cup           molasses  (Black strap makes a dark bread,
                         regular makes a lighter-colored bread,
                         Honey may be sub. and is equally as good
    1      cup           rolled oats
    2      cups          boiling water
    2      packages      active dry yeast
 
 First of all you need two bread pans.  The measurements should be
 9"x5"x3".'
 
 Each morning before breakfast I put the rolled oats in a large bread
 bowl, and pour the boiling water over it.  It stands there while I get
 breakfast.  About one-half hour later it will be still warm, and this is
 important.  It will have softened up and all the little separate oats
 will have blended together.  Now you are ready to begin.
 
 Step one is to soak the yeast.  Pour it out of the packageds on the top
 of the luke warm water.  Let stand five minutes or so.  Meanwhile you've
 other things to do .  Add to the soaked oats the salt, molasses, butter,
 and special ingredients of the day, (see notes)  if any.
 
 By now the yeast has grown and is ready.  Stir , and add it to the above
 mixture.  Next add and stir in the first 2 cups of flour, then 2 more
 cups.  The second 2 may be a little difficult to blend but they will
 gradually merge.  The last 2 you knead in.
 
 One of the most fun things I know is kneading bread.  You can feel the
 bounce of the dough; the yeast turns it elastic, and it purely lives in
 your hands and grows as you work it.  Here is how you do this kneading,
 and it is not one bit difficult.  Leave the dough in the large bowl. 
 Roll up your sleeves. Scatter half a cup of flour on top of the dough. 
 With the heel of you hand, press into the dough-one quick firm press, 
 Then with your fingers get hold of and shift it around in the bow.,
 sometimes turning it over.  As the flour you are working with gradually
 merges into the bread, add more, and continue kneading until the las 2
 cups of flour are in.  This might take ten minutes or five.  If the
 dough is still very sticky, add a little more flour.
 
 When the flour is all worked in, shape the dough into a mound in the
 center of the bowl, cover with a clean dish towel and leave for several
 hours.  The convenient part of this bread is that one hour more or less
 of rising doesn't matter, so you can go about your business.  As it
 begins to rise a lovely smell spreads over the house, a sent more subtle
 than that of bread baking  but equally nice.  I'd suggest you let the
 dough rise about 2 hours in average-warm room.  No added heat from the
 stove is necessary.  I can't say why but ours always rises faster on
 clear, sunny days.
 
 When the dough has risen to about two times the size it was when you
 finished kneading and is gently lifting the covering cloth. you are
 ready for the next step.
 
 Cut it down with a knife, which seem unfair after all its work of
 rising!  But willy-nilly, cut back and forth a half dozen times through
 the cough while, like a punctured balloon, it subsides into never quite
 its original size but near it.
 
 Now divide and place into the two well greased read pans, shaping the
 dough out at the ends, to cover entirely the bottom of the pans.  Let
 the dough be fairly level and smooth on top.  Cover and let it rise
 again.  This time it comes up more quickly.  In perhaps an hour or so it
 will rise into the lovely shape of the loaf you wish it to have in the
 end, the top delicately rounded.
 
 Put it in the oven at 325 degrees, on a rack about four inches from the
 bottom.  Bake for 50 minutes.  If you have forgotten to turn the oven
 on, no matter; set in a cold oven, turning the gauge to 325 degrees and
 bake 60 minutes.  Either way is successful.  This baking time is when
 the fragrance reaches it's peak of delight.  Ask a friend for tea just
 to sit there beside your glowing fire, with the bread baking.
 
 
 
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 NOTES : The basic recipe can be made up as is, or any of five variations
 can be made by adding one of the following
     (1)   1 cup seedless raisins
      (2)  herbs: 1/2t dried parsley, 1t dried basil, 1/2 t anise seed,
 2t dried summer            savory, 1/4t powdered thyme
      (3)  herbs:  2t leaf sage, crumbled; 1t leaf marjoram, crumbled;
 1/2t caraway seed
      (4)  3/4 cup citron, dried fruits and peels
      (5)  1/2 cup orange marmalade and only 1/4 cup molasses
 
 I, Nancy,  use honey most often because it is a staple in our house.  I
 have used (cooked) wheatberry, have substituted up to 1/2 of the flour
 with whole wheat flour, and really like to use unbleached flour the
 best.  I have found one of the most remembered gifts is bread straight
 from the oven and over the fence.

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