Whole Wheat Bread

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DougMathis on 20 Dec 2011 at 14:11

Hi,

Has anyone come across a whole wheat bread recipe using molasses and honey? If so, has anyone ever substituted the honey with more molasses? or Has anyone a recipe that uses only molasses?

 

Thanks,

Doug

Hi,

Yes, I've made whole wheat bread using molasses only.  Of course it is not as sweet as honey and will make the bread a bit darker and impart a hint of molasses flavor, but other than that I found I could replace the honey with molasses without consequence in terms of the mechanics of the bread rising, hydration, etc.

The recipe I used was the Tassajara Bread Book whole wheat bread recipe.

Linda

Hi Linda,

Thank you for your response. I am  very anxious to rtry it although the recipe I have turns out great bread. Sometimes if it ain't broke I hate to fix it but I am gonna try just using molasses.

Doig

Doug,

I'll be interested to see how it turns out, hopefully you will like the taste of the bread with molasses.

Linda

Hi Linda,

I will definitely let you know how I like the taste of the bread with molasses. I love the recipe and it is one of the softest and the most moist I have eaten. I am a big pb n j fan and I ate quite a few mieces of bread smeared with the stuff.

Doug

...I made was sweetened with a combination of molasses and honey.  This bread also contained spent grains from beer-making which I find somewhat sweet as well.  The honey was added because I ran out of molasses.  To be truthful, I didn't like flavor as well as that bread when I use only molasses and the spent grain.  I guess I would use either molasses or honey.

FF

Are you using blackstrap or golden molasses? The blackstrap will give a much stronger flavor. When I make molasses cookies, I use a mix of both. 

It is Grandma's Brand Gold Standard Molasses Unsulphered. I have been wanting to try black stap molasses as I heard much  about it when I was growing up.

I've been using a barley malt. It gives it a kind of molasses flavor. I made a loaf with it for a friend at work, and she liked it...I assume so, as she asked what it was. It was made with wheat flour, so when I offered to make her another, she only requested it be white...nothing about the barley malt.  The bread I'm making today has it...can't wait to taste it. Normally I put 1 Tbl  but today I eyeballed it.  Pretty sure it was more than a tablespoon!