Sourdough Honey Whole Wheat Bread

From: kcram

On Sep 19, 2008

This is wonderful! The first recipe I made with my sourdough starter! I'm still a little nervous about how to "feed" and keep my starter going, so I hope I don't mess it up because I'm planning to make this bread often! My husband and kids loved it!

From: beemer

On Aug 29, 2008

I made this using something that was originally Amish friendship bread starter that I had somehow misread the directions for on time to feed etc. I had reduced the amount of sugar by half in the starter and it still seemed to do fine. Anyway, I was fairly certain that this wouldn't work out, being the wrong kind of starter, but I am more interested in "real" bread than sweet friendship bread, so that is what I wanted to make. I made the recipe as written (but subbed olive oil and reduced the honey since I had a sweeter starter) and, to my great joy and amazement, it rose beautifully for one thing, and turned out like real, honest bread. It was great as toast and we devoured large amounts of it with a tuscan white bean soup. No, it didn't have the sourdough flavor (I'll probably have to just go the sourdough route one day), but it was like the expensive, more robust "European" breads from the grocery store. I can't say I would recommend such brash experimentation because I think it could have gone horribly wrong (everyone always says that other kinds of cooking are far more amenable to flagrant tinkering, but baking is more like chemistry so you'd better play by the rules), but I'll definitely be making this again. Oh, and I also used 50/50 flour because that's what I keep around. Thanks for a great recipe!

From: Rubies

On Jul 30, 2008

Yummy taste, nice balance between the sourdough and honey. I mixed and baked this in my bread machine, and it did fine. I substituted olive oil for the shortening. I will definitely make this bread often.

From: PaulaG

On Sep 4, 2004

I don't know where the 4 servings comes from. This makes 1 well rounded loaf of bread. It has a nice texture and slices well. The honey flavor comes through very nice. I used melted butter instead of the shortening and round off the starter to 1 full cup. Definately a keeper.