Farmhouse Honey Wheat Bread Mix
A wonderful bread to toast or for sandwiches--sweetened with a touch of honey and milk. Very satisfying.
- Is this bread as good as Heritage Wheat Bread? I think so. It's basically Heritage Wheat with honey added. The combination of potato flour, milk, and honey makes a great bread combo.
- Is it sweeter than Heritage Wheat? Not that I can tell, about the same. But the combination of sweeteners--fructose, lactose, and a little sucrose--is cool. It's not sweet bread. It's a pleasant bread.
- Can you taste the honey? I can't, but then, my taste buds are a little worn out. I can taste the sweetness, and some of the reviewers can taste the honey.
- What makes this bread better than most other wheat breads? It's a good recipe with better ingredients. The flour is milled by General Mills in Montana. We're 93 miles from the Montana border.
- What else? The combination of honey, potato flour, and milk costs more but makes it a softer, sweeter bread.
- What does the potato flour do? Potato flour is hygroscopic. Instead of drying out like wheat flour it acts like a sponge and draws moisture from the air--not much but enough to make the crumb softer and moister. It's just a more pleasant bread.
- Anything else? It's fresher. Flour is packaged in paper bags. We get our flour weekly. Then we get it out of the paper and into the mixes and Mylar bags right away. That helps.
- What else makes this bread different? The preservatives. We hate preservatives. So, we don't use any. It's a healthier product.
- Well, how long will my bread last? The mix will last a long time. Most mixes will last a year or more. Once baked, use it in four or five days. If you need it to last longer than that, freeze part of your loaf.
Dennis Weaver
This is an exceptional wheat bread. Often, wheat bread is coarse and harsh. This is as soft and moist as homemade white bread.
Recommended jam: Harvest Peach Cobbler
Make great Tuna Melt Sandwiches
Ingredients
1 tin of tuna, well drained and crumbled
3 tablespoons mayonnaise
2 tablespoons sweet relish
2 green onions, chopped (optional)
1 stalk celery, finely chopped (optional)
fresh ground black pepper to taste
salt to taste
1 slice cheese, mozzarella or other, for each sandwich
bread
butter
Directions
- Mix the tuna, mayonnaise, lemon juice, chopped onion, and celery together with a fork. Salt and pepper to taste. Spread on bread slices. Add a slice of cheese. Top with additional slices of bread.
- Spread butter on both sides of the sandwich and grill in a moderately hot skillet, turning once, until the bread is fried to a golden brown and the cheese is melted. I usually put a lid over the top of the frying pan or over the sandwich on the griddle to get the cheese melting sooner.
What others say:
"Tastes great. Love this bread! There is nothing like making your own fresh bread, it smells amazing and tastes wonderful 😃"
"I really loved this bread mix....it's almost impossible to find a light wheat bread mix that really is light and not heavy and porous but this mix fits all my expectations!!"
"Not too sweet. Has a healthy, hearty texture. Great to use for sandwiches. Hubby and I both enjoyed it." Sharyn Ueckert
"Wow! Prepared Pantry, these mixes are amazing! Everyone I've tried so far has been absolutely delicious. The knobby apple cinnamon, cheddar cheese, and the cinnamon raisin English muffin -unbelievable flavor! I can't give these a high enough rating, they are all delicious!" Chia Lucas
Yeast is sensitive to temperature. It works best at 79 degrees. That's why we specify 80 degrees and ask you to use a thermometer. Salt, acid, and some spices will impede the growth of yeast and sometimes kill it.
Honey is a powerful sweetener, fructose instead of sucrose. And we taste it differently; the taste lingers in the mouth longer. It's sweeter.
Honey is hygroscopic. Instead of drying out, it draws moisture from the air, so honey bread stays moist for longer. There's not a lot of honey in the bread, so the difference is subtle, but honey bread is different.
