alt.bread.recipes would also be a good place to ask



Brian Christiansen wrote:
> Occasionally, I make myself a loaf of bread, though usually I am just
> lazy and buy a loaf. The recipe I was use is a pretty standard one,
> and my favorite combination is to use 2 c. of white flour and 1 of
> whole wheat. Sometimes I split the dough into the little tart tins
> and make hamburger buns instead of baking the stuff up into a loaf
> pan.
> The other day, there was a thread about adding some oatmeal to the
> bread, but it did not say (or I missed where it did say) whether a
> 1/2 cup or so or oats is simply added, or are the oats added, with a
> corresponding amount of flour is subrtracted.
>
> I have the same question about grape nuts. Would I simply add 1/2
> cup to the recipe. I looked up "grape nuts bread" on google, and
> most of the recipes I found were for quick breads and not yeast
> breads, but a few were, and I appeared that they were just standard
> recipes with grape nuts added.
> The main effect I would want to get out of adding grape nuts is for
> them to retain their crunchyness. If they will not, what will. Sunflower
> kernels or some other type of nut? Some other kind of
> cereal, perhaps "crunchy" granola or a "flake" cereal like Special K?
>
> Brian Christiansen