Ezekiel Bread Recipes

Steps:

• Place lentils in a small saucepan, cover with water and cook until soft. Drain and set aside to cool. In a small bowl, dissolve yeast in 1/2 cup warm water. Let stand until creamy, about 10 minutes.
• Place the cooled lentils in a bowl and mash. Mix in olive oil, honey, salt and remaining 4 1/2 cups warm water. In a large bowl, mix together whole wheat flour, barley flour, soy flour, millet flour and rye flour.
• Stir the yeast mixture into the lentil mixture. Beat in 2 cups of the flour mixture. Stir in the remaining flour mixture, 1 cup at a time, beating well after each addition. When the dough has pulled together, turn it out onto a lightly floured surface and knead until smooth, about 8 minutes. Lightly oil a large bowl, place the dough in the bowl and turn to coat with oil. Cover with a damp cloth and let rise in a warm place until doubled in volume, about 1 hour.
• Deflate the dough and turn it out onto a lightly floured surface. Briefly knead the dough and divide into four equal pieces and form into loaves. Place the loaves into four lightly greased 9x5 inch loaf pans. Cover the loaves with a damp cloth and let rise until doubled in volume, about 40 minutes. Meanwhile, preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
• Bake in preheated oven for about 1 hour, or until bottom of a loaf sounds hollow when tapped.

Steps:

• Measure the water, honey, olive oil, and yeast into a large bowl. Let sit for 3 to 5 minutes.
• Stir all of the grains and beans together until well mixed. Grind in a flour mill. Add fresh milled flour and salt to the yeast mixture; stir until well mixed, about 10 minutes. The dough will be like that of a batter bread. Pour dough into two greased 9 x 5 inch loaf pans.
• Let rise in a warm place for about 1 hour, or until dough has reached the top of the pan.
• Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 45 to 50 minutes, or until loaves are golden brown.

Steps:

• Place milk and water into a microwave-safe glass measuring cup. Heat in microwave for 35 seconds. Pour mixture into bread machine. Add egg, 2 tablespoons olive oil, and honey.
• Grind black beans, lentils, kidney beans, and barley in a coffee grinder until fine. Combine grounds, unbleached flour, whole wheat flour, millet flour, rye flour, cracked wheat, wheat germ, and salt in the bread machine. Add yeast.
• Set bread machine on dough cycle.
• Remove and punch down dough once bread machine beeps. Roll dough out onto a pastry cloth. Grease a loaf pan with remaining olive oil. Shape dough into a loaf and place into the prepared pan. Cover with a damp cloth and let rise until doubled in volume, about 40 minutes.
• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
• Uncover dough and bake in the preheated oven for 10 minutes. Lower oven temperature to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C); bake until browned, 30 to 35 minutes more. Let bread rest in the pan for 10 minutes; remove and let cool until ready to slice.

Steps:

• In a large bowl, dissolve yeast in 3/4 cup warm water and 1 tablespoon honey. Add the remaining water and honey, the oil, sugar, salt, whole wheat flour, wheat germ and 3 cups bread flour. Beat until smooth. Stir in enough remaining bread flour to form a soft dough (dough will be sticky).
• Turn onto a lightly floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic, about 6-8 minutes. Place in a bowl coated with cooking spray, turning once to coat the top. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 1 hour.
• Punch dough down. Shape into four loaves. Place in 9-in. x 5-in. loaf pans coated with cooking spray. Cover and let rise until nearly doubled, about 30 minutes.
• Bake at 350° for 30-35 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from pans to wire racks to cool. Yield: 4 loaves (16 slices each).
• Note:.
• 45 mins prep + rising. Bake: 30 minutes + cooling.

Steps:

• Warm oven: turn on for one minute with door open, then turn oven off and close door.
• Steam oven: add water to small pot and bring to boil, then place pot without lid inside warmed oven.
• Make liquid mix: (done once per loaf), add water and sugar (molasses, honey, etc) into small bowl, heat in microwave for 1 minute, place in steamed oven
• Make dry mix: (done once per loaf), Measure ingredients to grind + 2%, grind, sift ground ingredients once discarding chunks, Measure powdered ingredients, mix with ingredients just ground, sift full mixture once, Crush caraway seeds (with mortar and pestle or blender) then add to mixture.
• Grease bread pans: no crisco/margarine, olive oil is ok, organic butter is best.
• Recharge steam: remove pot with water from oven, again bring to boil, place back inside oven.
• Prepare dough: (done once per loaf), Mix liquid and dry ingredients into uniform dough, Press dough into bread pan, shaping as desired, Place full bread pan into steamed oven.
• Rise: let dough rise about 40 minutes, do not open oven, leave steaming pot in oven.
• Baking: turn oven on to 400° F and immediately remove steaming pot, bake for 32-35 minutes, bread is done when internal temperature is >205° F and before top/bottom burn.
• Cooling: remove bread from oven, turn oven off, in 10-20 minutes, remove bread from pan and place on wire rack to cool, in 1 hour, slice bread and place on paper towel inside plastic bag, leave plastic bag open, in 1 hour, using a different paper towel wipe the condensation from inside of bag, close bag and store.
• Storing: keeps 3-5 days at room temperature, 2+ weeks in refrigerator, months in freezer.

Steps:

• Dissolve the yeast in warm water and let set for 10 minutes.
• Mix the other dry ingredients in separate bowl.
• Blend lentils, oil, honey and small amount of water; place in large mixing bowl with remaining water.
• Stir in 2 cups of mixed flour.
• Add yeast mixture. Stir in remaining salt and flour.
• Knead on floured surface, then place in oiled bowl.
• Let rise until double in bulk.
• Knead again; shape and place in greased loaf pans.
• Let rise. Bake 375 for 1 hour.
• - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NOTES : A Health Food Store is a source for some of these ingredients.