Three-Grain 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

This is my version of the rye and Indian meal bread that was a favorite in the first thirteen colonies, often paired fresh with rose geranium–apple jelly, or served day-old in slices floating in a thick soup. Every cookbook of the era has a recipe for this bread, and it is still as good today. I have substituted oil for the bacon fat.

Ingredients

1½-Pound Loaf

  • 1⅛ cups fat-free milk
  • 2 tablespoons sunflower seed oil or light olive oil

Method

  1. Place all the ingredients in the pan according to the order in the manufacturer’s instructions. Set crust on medium and program for the Whole Wheat cycle; press Start. (This recipe is not suitable for use with the Delay Timer.)
  2. When the baking cycle ends, immediately remove the bread from the pan and place it on a rack. Let cool to room temperature before slici