This bread has become one of our favorite sandwich breads. It does require sourdough starter but I’m sure an experienced breadmaker could substitute a little more or less flour and a little more or less water and still get a good result without the sourdourgh starter. Of course, your bread would not have any sourdough flavor but even without that, I think this would still be a tremendously good bread.
I’ve also made the bread leaving out the whole wheat flour (when I was too lazy to grind it) and adding an extra 1/2 cup of all purpose flour.
The last time I made meatballs, I used the end of a loaf for the breadcrumbs so the meatballs had a bit of crunch every now and then from a seed of some kind and they were so good!
My recipe is based on Clay’s Multi-Grain Sourdough Sandwich Bread and I’ve added a few other ingredients.
Sourdough Sandwich Bread:
Ingredients:
2/3 cup sourdough starter, fed or unfed
2/3 cup lukewarm water or milk
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 tablespoon sugar
1 1/4 teaspoons salt
1 3/4 cups all purpose flour
1 egg
1/2 cup instant potato flakes
1/2 cup whole wheat flour
2 teaspoons dough enhancer
1 T. ground flax seeds
3 T. finely chopped toasted walnuts or pecans (or similar type nuts)
1/3 cup King Arthur Harvest Grains Blend
2 teaspoons instant yeast
Directions:
1. Dump all the ingredients into a large mixing bowl with dough hook and mix at medium speed for 5 – 7 minutes.
2. Scrape into a greased bowl. Cover and let sit til about double in bulk – usually about 1 to 1-1/2 hours, depending on the temperature of your kitchen.
3. Turn from bowl onto a floured board. Knead minimally, just to remove the air. Shape into a loaf and place into a greased loaf pan.
4. Let rise until about 1″ above the sides of the pan.
5. Preheat oven to 350º. Bake 30 – 40 minutes until the top is golden brown.
pdudgeon says
that certainly does sound good!
Kynomi says
Judy, what the heck is dough enhancer?
Susie Reardon says
sounds so yummy…..did you make your own starter or did you purchase? If purchased where did you get it?
thanks
Susan says
Thanks for the recipe! I have way too much sour dough starter in my fridge right now! Even after making sour dough oatmeal cookies yesterday.
Marianne says
How about adding these instructions to your recipe section. The recipe sounds fantastic and I’d love to try it at a later date.
Donna F says
Judy, I saw this and thought of you and Vince:
A DEA officer stopped at our farm yesterday “I need to inspect your farm for illegal growing drugs.”
I said “Okay , but don’t go in that field over there…..”,
The DEA officer verbally exploded saying, ” Mister, I have the authority of the Federal Government with me!” Reaching into his rear pants pocket, the arrogant officer removed his badge and shoved it in my face. “See this badge?! This badge means I am allowed to go wherever I wish…. On any land !! No questions asked or answers given!! Have I made myself clear?…. do you understand?!!”
I nodded politely, apologized, and went about my chores. A short time later, I heard loud screams, looked up, and saw the DEA officer running for his life, being chased by my big old mean bull…… With every step the bull was gaining ground on the officer, and it seemed likely that he’d sure enough get gored before he reached safety. The officer was clearly terrified.
I threw down my tools, ran to the fence and yelled at the top of my lungs…..
“Your badge, show him your BADGE!!”