Whole Wheat Bread with Flax Seed Meal

Whole Wheat Bread with Flax Seed Meal

1/2 cup packed brown sugar
2 tsp salt
2 1/2 cups hot buttermilk (can use some water--but buttermilk makes softer bread)
2 Tbsp honey
2 Tbsp margarine
In large mixer bowl, mix first 5 ingredients together. Cool slightly. Add 3 cups of whole wheat flour and 1/3 cup of ground flaxseed meal to cooled mixture. Blend at low speed until moist; then beat at medium speed for three minutes (this develops the gluten).
Mix 2 Tbsp yeast
1/2 cup warm water
1 tsp sugar
and let soften. Add last 1 1/2 cups of whole wheat flour to large bowl, and add the yeast mixture--after it has started to raise. Mix all together well. Stir in 2-3 cups white flour, 1/2 cup at a time, until dough pulls cleanly away from the sides of the bowl. Knead until dough is smooth and elastic (can add another 1/2 cup white flour if it is to sticky), at least 7 minutes in mixer or 10-15 minutes by hand. Place dough in greased bowl, cover with plastic wrap sprayed with PAM, and a towel. Let rise in warm place until doubled--about an hour. Punch down to remove air bubbles. Divide dough into 2 loaves and form into loaf shapes. Place in greased bread pans and let rise again until dough is about 1 inch above pan edges.(About 30-45 minutes) Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes--or until loaves sound hollow when lightly rapped. Remove from pans immediately; cool and place in plasic bags--or eat and enjoy!
submitted by: Carrie Brady