At 12:41 AM 4/13/98 -0700, you wrote:
>I'm looking for an ABM recipe for 7 grain bread using 7 grain cereal.
Hi Donna -- here's my favourite 7-grain recipe (I think I got this from
this list):
1 1/4 cups plus 2 T. water
2 T. Canola Oil
1/4 cup honey
1 1/2 t. salt
1 1/2 cups wheat flour
1 1/2 cups bread flour
1/3 cup 7-grain mix
2 tsp. yeast
Place all ingredients in baking pan in the order listed. Bake on the
regular or whole wheat setting.
>I am curious about breadmaking if and as described in the Bible. Is
>breadmaking described in it? >The passover story certainly says that the
bread
>before the Exodus was unleavened. How was it normally leavened? How was
>flour made? And many more questions.
Same here -- many more questions. Here are my speculations, for what
they're worth. The Passover bread wasn't leavened because they had to
leave Egypt so fast and there was no time to let it rise. Common sense
tells me that they probably made some sort of a sourdough-type bread with a
starter, rather than yeast, but that's only my own (and probably faulty)
thinking. I know something about how the wheat was gathered and the wheat
berries separated, but nothing about how they made the flour.
>Does anyone have a recipe for homemade Bisquick mix that can be
substituted for
>Bisquick in recipes?
Hi Helen -- I use a homemade biscuit mix all the time, for 2 reasons -- 1)
it's cheaper, and 2) I can make it with whole wheat or freshly ground flour
if I like. I store it in an old dishwasher detergent bucket in my upright
freezer. It will keep on a pantry shelf for about 2 months or in the
freezer for as long as you like:
9 cups flour (vary this as you like with different flours. I usually go
half whole wheat)
1/3 cup baking powder
1 1/2 cups dry milk powder
1 T. salt
1/4 cup sugar
2 cups shortening
Combine the dry ingredients and then cut in the shortening until the mix
looks like coarse cornmeal. Yields 13 cups.
When I cut the shortening in, I use my Kitchenaid whisk attachment and just
do it that way.
> Has Fleishman's stopped making them? or are my grocery store suppliers
just a bunch of horses patoots? Any help on where to get these will be
greatfully appreciated.
Janis, try this site: http://www.breadworld.com/products/products.html
It has all kinds of info and you might be able to find out how to order them.
Boy, it's nice to be able to be helpful. I glean so much info from this
list that I often feel like a mooch, never contributing. But hey, I make
great bread! :D
Jenny
Mark and Jen Wesner
mwnjw@iei.net
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