High Rise, Multi-Grain Bread

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Four delicious loaves of multi-grain bread. Don't expect them to last long. 
Four delicious loaves of multi-grain bread. Don't expect them to last long. 
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Step 1: In a blender, macerate 12 cups of mixed grains you've soaked overnight.
Step 1: In a blender, macerate 12 cups of mixed grains you've soaked overnight.
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Step 2: Grind up 8 pounds of whole wheat, 1 pound of triticale, and 1/2 pound of rye into flour.
Step 2: Grind up 8 pounds of whole wheat, 1 pound of triticale, and 1/2 pound of rye into flour.
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Add oil, unsulfured molasses, eggs, corn flour, buttermilk powder, and dry yeast to the grain and flour mixture.
Add oil, unsulfured molasses, eggs, corn flour, buttermilk powder, and dry yeast to the grain and flour mixture.
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Step 4: Knead the dough vigorously by hand for 15 minutes.
Step 4: Knead the dough vigorously by hand for 15 minutes.
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Step 5: Separate the dough into loaves.
Step 5: Separate the dough into loaves.

I baked my first loaf of whole-grain bread over 30 years
ago, and I’ve tried a passel of recipes in the decades
that have followed, but I’ve never been able to make a
batch that would rise more than half an inch above the pans
even when I used one packet of yeast for each and every

  • Published on Nov 1, 1979
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