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Honey Oat Sourdough Bread 

Servings 5 loaves
Author Glenda Groff

Ingredients

  • 1 ½ cups Old Fashioned Oats
  • 3 ½ cups water
  • 4 1/4 cups *starter my **starter is fairly thick
  • 1/3 cup honey-- you can use less
  • 1/3 cup olive oil--you can use less
  • ½ cup dough enhancer OR 1/3 cup vital wheat gluten
  • 3 tablespoons Lethicin optional
  • 8- 8 ½ cups white whole wheat flour
  • 1 ½ tablespoons salt

Instructions

  1. Blend oatmeal in blender cup until fine. In mixer bowl combine ground oats and water. Allow to soak 10 minutes. Add starter, honey, oil, dough enhancer, Lethicin, and 4 cups flour. Mix until well combined. Add remaining flour in 1/2 cup increments until dough begins to pulls away from the sides of the bowl but is still slightly tacky. Allow your dough rest for 20 minutes. Add salt and knead for 9 minutes. Put into a greased bowl turning dough to coat with oil. Cover with a lid and allow dough to proof for 6 hours. Divide dough into 5 pieces and shape into loaves and place into well greased bread pans. Allow to rise for 1-2 hours or until 3/4 proofed. Wet the blade of a sharp knife and slash each loaf. Bake in an oven pre-heated to 350 degrees F. for 27-30 minutes. Cool. Approximately 70 slices of bread which will give you less than 1/4 teaspoon oil and honey per slice and is with in the carb category limit. Adding additional fats will be a combined fuel. The fermenting time does eat up the sugar from the honey. You may reduce the honey and oil if  you would like but your bread will get stale quicker.
  2. *I feed my starter 4 times before I make bread to have it super active, in the evening, the next day-morning, lunch and just before I go to bed. I feed with a ratio of 1 cup starter, 1 cup flour, and 2/3 cup water. I have had much better success with a thick starter than a thinner one.
  3. **A thinner starter will require more flour than 8 1/2 cups.
  4. ***Sourdough bread is considered a carb fuel. If you make pizza, hot pockets, etc using full fat cheese and meat you will have a combined fuel category which may stall weight loss.