Bread and Buns
 This recipe makes one loaf of bread and four buns. With a little tweak it could also make 24 buns or two somewhat smaller loaves. |
 Start first thing in the morning. Nuke
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- 1 ½ TBSP canola oil
- 1 ½ TBSP maple syrop
- ¾ cup oatmeal
- 1 tsp salt
- 3 cups bread flour
- ½ cup whole wheat flour
- 2 tsp bread machine yeast
- ¼ cup onion flakes (or you can add when the add ingredients siren blares)
- ¼ cup pumpkin seeds (ditto)
 Start bread machine on dough cycle - menu 11. When it gets going add ½ tsp water if dough is having trouble becoming a ball. Scrape down sides with wooden spoon. |
 An hour and a half later the dough should be ready. Preheat the oven to 350. Put a layer of tinfoil on your smallest cookie sheet and give it a spritz of oil, then a dusting of flour. Have the loaf pan handy. |
Remove the dough from the bread machine basket and make sure the paddle isn't in your dough. Squeeze off ⅓ of the dough or so - about 12 oz. Form into four buns and place on cookie sheet in proximity to one another but not touching. They'll grow a bit and link up on their own. Cover with wax paper and put on top of the stove where it's a little warm from the oven. Set a timer for 40 minutes.
Then get the remaining dough and stretch it ever so
 slightly and make the stretched ends meet. As if you were rolling it around something. Then grab the other ends, give them a gentle stretch and join them up. This will give you a ball of dough that's in a sort-of-a loaf shape. Put it in the loaf pan with stretchy joins down as close to the middle as you can get it. Cover with wax paper and put it with the buns. If you put it over a nice toasty warm spot once the oven gets going then put it on a cooling rack to even out the warmth a bit. |
 When your timer goes off the oven should be warm. Remove the wax paper from the buns and into the oven for |
24 minutes at 350
 Remove buns to cool. Before they totally cool put them in the bread keeper. Now on to the bread. The bread should have expanded to make an attractive loaf. If so then take the wax paper off and into the oven for |
44 minutes at 350
 When the time is up, remove the pan (very hot!) and shake the loaf out onto a cooling grill. Then flip the loaf right side up on the grill and let sit for at least 10 minutes before slicing. |
 Eat up! When lunch is over put the remaining bread in the bread keeper, cut side down to keep the cut fresh. |
Bread, and in particular buns, freeze well and come back almost fresh with a little zap in the microwave.