Oatmeal Honey Bread

This is the only bread I have in my house! It freezes exceptionally well! It is great for open-faced sandwiches and toast. It does not have refined sugar in it, the only sweetener is a 1/2 cup of raw honey in two loaves. *You can use pure maple syrup instead of honey if feeding to babies under 1 year old.

Enjoy!

Sarah

Oatmeal Honey Bread Recipe:

1 cup oats

2 cups of boiling water

1/3 cup warm water

2 Tablespoons of yeast

5 ½ cups of flour

(*4 may be regular unbleached and 1- 1 ½ can be gluten free options)

½ cup raw honey

2 Tablespoons of olive oil (or coconut oil, but you will need to melt this to a liquid)

2 ½ teaspoon of salt (optional)

Butter or coconut oil for greasing the pans

Ingredients:

Flour

Old Fashioned Oats (I use Gluten Free: Bobs Red Mill Old Fashioned Oats)

Olive Oil or Coconut Oil

Yeast

1 large mixing bowl

1 large or 2 medium bread pans ( I prefer 2 pans)

Grass fed or organic butter or coconut oil for greasing the pans

Bring 2 cups of water to a boil pour into Pyrex container, add 1 cup of old fashioned oats and let sit to cool, stirring every so often.

Pour 1/3 cup of warm water into another container and add 2 tablespoons of yeast (using too hot of water will kill the yeast, use your wrist to judge temperature, *what you would use for a baby’s bottle temperature is a good gauge).

In a large mixing bowl add 2 tablespoons of olive oil.

Add ½ cup of raw honey

Mix the honey and oil together

Add 4 cups of regular unbleached flour

Add the yeast mixture

Grease the pans with butter or coconut oil while waiting on oats to cool

Lastly add the oats when cool enough to where it will not kill the yeast.

Optional to add 2 ½ teaspoons of salt

Begin to knead the dough: Adding 1 ½ more cups of flour as needed.

Spilt dough into 2 batches and knead the remaining flour in mixing bowl into the dough *excuse my house slippers and pink socks Mamas! Such is life with two kids under 3!

Put dough in separate greased and floured pans

Let rise for 1 hour (sometimes it needs an hour and a half, the bread pictured below is at 1 hour but needs more time as it is still not high enough in the pan, you want it just about level or about the edge).

Bake at 350 degrees for 35 minutes.

*If using one large pan bake for 40-45 mins

Tips:

Do not forget to grease and flour the pans!

You can make this bread with gluten free flour, however you must buy the bread flour. What I like to do is use gluten free old fashioned oats (Bobs Red Mill) and use less flour- subbing in a portion with garbanzo flour or coconut flour. Instead of using 5 ½ cups of flour I use a total of 4, 3 regular and 1 of the gluten substitute flour.