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Default grape nuts and bread

On Sep 23, 2:40?am, "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


google amber waves of grain bread. Easy to make, impressive to eat.
good luck