Fabulous Homemade Wheat bread

Stephanie - I saw you started a post and never published it. I thought I would post this in case you were still looking.

This isn't 100% whole wheat but close enough. And we do think it is yummy. The original is done the old fashion way. I, of course, converted it to a bread machine. (I have no confidence doing bread by hand) Anyway, like usual I do the dough in the machine and then let it rise in a bread pan and bake it in the oven. The original recipe makes 6 loaves but I scaled it down to fit into my machine. This makes 2 big loaves or 3 smaller loaves.

2 1/4 cup warm water
1/3 cup veg. oil
1 cup quick cooking oats
1 cup white flour
5 cups wheat flour
2 1/4 tsp salt
1/3 cup brown sugar
2 1/4 tsp yeast (you might want to experiment with that, depending on personal taste)

Put wet than dry ingredients in the bread machine. Set to dough cycle. Punch down, remove, shape according to desire and let rise. Bake at 350 for 35 min or so. Watch the top of the bread so it doesn't get too brown.

Oh, one other note. I have added wheat germ and flax seed to this without it changing the taste. Not too much, maybe about 3 Tbsp. It is worth experimenting to find your own personal taste.

Whole Wheat Pizza Dough

Pizza Dough (for bread maker)
Large - 2 pounds

Water, 80-90degrees: 1 1/3 cups
Honey or sugar: 1 teaspoon
Salt: 2 teaspoons
Extra virgin olive oil: 2 tablespoons
Bread flour: 3 1/4 cups
Whole wheat flour: 3/4 cups
Yeast, active dry, instant or bread machine: 2 1/4 teaspoons

Put the ingredients in the order listed into your bread maker. When it finished mixing, rising, etc...before it begins to "bake" the bread, pull it out and either chill in the fridge until you're ready to use it, or roll it out immediately for pizza. I usually roll the dough out and then toss just the crust in the oven for maybe 7-8 mins just long enough to make it crispier. Then top it with sauce and your favorite toppings. And throw it back in for about another 10-15 mins, or until crust is lightly brown and the cheese is melted. Bake @ 400 degrees.

Mama Croxall's Rolls (for the bread machine)

I am a huge bread machine user for making dough. This recipe was originally not for the bread machine, so if there are requests I can try and dig it up.

1 C milk (powder milk works fine)
1 egg
2 Tbsp. butter, melted
3-3 1/2 C flour
1/4 C sugar
1/4 tsp salt
2 1/4 tsp yeast

1. Put liquid ingredients in bread machine, break up the egg a bit.

2. Put dry ingredients in

3. Make well and put in yeast

4. Set to dough cycle

5. Punch down and form into 12-16 rolls

6. Place rolls in greased 9x13 baking dish

7. Let rise double in size

8. Bake at 375 for 15 min.