Desperately seeking a long-ago recipe for muti-grain bread ...

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Cooky on 28 Jun 2025 at 17:47

I made a multi-grain bread years ago, using a recipe I found here, and took it to  a party where it was a massive hit. I would love to find it again, but of course I failed to save it properly. 

The distinguishing feature of this recipe is that the loaves (all round as I recall) were encrusted with sunflower seeds. I know the recipe included whole wheat, rye, and probably a little flax? But there was more to it, and I am at a loss to figure out what. 

If this sounds familiar, I would be eternally grateful if you can point me to the right recipe, or a close facsimile.

Thanks in advance to all!

 

P.S. This was not a sourdough recipe. There were no nuts or seeds etc. mixed into the dough. The seeds went on just before the final rise, by rolling the loaves in a dish full of them. 

 

Out of the thousands of recipes on this site I bet many fit that description. However I think you'll love Hamelman's Five Grain Levain. Even if it isn't the recipe which you are referring to it is delicious. 

Here is a good write-up.

The instant yeast is optional. If you miss it out expect longer rising times. 

I went through your comments thinking there might be a clue. Subjects only, so could have missed something. No-knead threads showed up a lot. Could it have been a no-knead recipe? Any idea what year that party was?

I saw you also lost a whole wheat recipe from a flour bag 39 yrs ago. Any luck with that one? 

I feel your pain. Decades ago I lost a magazine that contained a picture of an old painting. I've been looking for that painting ever since. Wrote to an art expert, went through years of the magazine's archives. So, what the heck...it's a landscape up in mountains and in the side of a mountain is a door where no door has a right to be.