Recipe

A Nova Scotian Brown Bread Recipe

	Sher / All my dishes 1 year, 5 months ago I call this A Nova Scotian Brown Bread because the recipe is never the same. Same ingredients but amounts of this and that varies from family to family.Whatever the amounts nothing goes better with a plate od homemade beans than a thick slice of homemade brown bread slathered in butter... More Prep:200m Cook:15m Servings:24	Sher
	not fast like all homemade breads

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Ingredients

2/3 cup Quick Cooking Oats

2 cups Boiling Water

2 tbsp butter

1 tsp salt

2/3 cup molasses

5 cups unbleached bread flour

4 tsp quick rise yeast or bread machine yeast

Directions

Combine oatmeal, Butter, salt, and molasses.

Pour Boiling water over top... stir to mix and let cool to warm

To molasses mixture add another cup of flour... beat..

Add yeast ...Beat

Add 2nd cup flour ... keep adding more flour mixing as you go until dough is easy to handle.

Turn out on lightly floured surface and knead in as much of the remaining flour a bit at a time until dough is smooth and elastic it will still be a bit sticky. (The above part can also be mixed in a stand mixer with dough attachment)

Place dough in an ungreased bowl cover with a plastic food cap ....or a new shower cap will work just as well.

Let dough rise until double in bulk about 1 1/2 hours

Dump dough out on lightly floured surface... degas dough ... shape into a round ball... dust with flour... cover with clean tea towel and let rest 15 minutes

Cut dough into two equal pieces shape into loaves and place in loaf pans that have been sprayed with cooking spray.

Spray tops of loaves cover with towel and rise in a warm draft free spot until double approx. 45 minutes

Meanwhile preheat oven 400*

Bake loaves 15 minutes reduce heat to 375* bake an additional 15 minutes or till done.

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Comments

lunasea 10 months, 1 week ago said:
This sounds like a very interesting and delicious bread. I am bookmarking to try this weekend. I have all the ingredients and it sounds like a winner. Thank you so much. I'll let you know what I think.