Tecate Ranch Whole Wheat Bread

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Bread Lover's Bread Machine Cookbook: A Master Baker's 300 Favorite Recipes for Perfect-Every-Time Bread-From Every Kind of Machine

By Beth Hensperger

Published 2000

  • About

One of the oldest recipes still served at the Rancho La Puerta health spa in Baja, California, is this 100 percent whole wheat bread. It is also served at the Ranch’s more luxurious sister spa, the Golden Door Spa, in San Diego, with chef Michel Stroot at the helm. It was originally called Zarathustra Bread because of the spa founder’s research into the ancient Persian religion of Zoroastrianism, which focuses on man’s good deeds. The loaf was a statement of commitment to v