How Do You Make Better Whole Wheat Bread?
Making whole wheat bread can be challenging. How do you achieve a loaf that’s not a brick? Here are are few techniques to make your whole wheat bread go from just okay to better than white bread. Always use fresh whole wheat flour. Unlike white flour, whole wheat flour contains the wheat germ which can go rancid and give the finished bread a bitter flavor. If your flour has been sitting around longer than a month, buy fresh. Avoid the bulk bins at your natural grocery store, as you won’t know how long the flour has been stored. Keep the flour in a resealable bag in the freezer. Bring to room temperature before starting the bread. When mixing, allow the whole wheat dough to be stickier than white dough. Resist the impulse to add more flour until the dough loses its stickiness, as you would with white bread. Whole wheat bread likes more water than white bread, and will take longer to absorb the water. As you knead by hand or machine, the dough will gradually lose its stickiness. Knead, k
