Moist Oatmeal Bread Recipes

Steps:

• Combine oats, molasses, oil, salt and boiling water. Let cool to about 105 degrees F.
• Dissolve the yeast in the warm water and let stand for 5 minutes or until creamy. Stir the yeast into oat mixture and mix well. Add whole wheat flour, 2 cups bread flour, and the eggs. Mix until well combined.
• Stir in enough of the remaining flour to make a soft dough. Turn dough out to a floured counter and knead for about 10 minutes. Place the dough in a well-greased bowl and cover with greased plastic wrap. Let the dough rest in the refrigerator overnight.
• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease 3 regular loaf pans and 4 mini loaf pans.
• Transfer the dough onto a floured surface and divide it into 4 pieces. Shape the dough into loaves and place them in the pans, seam-side down. Let rise until doubled, about 90 minutes. Bake in the preheated oven until the loaves are golden brown and sound hollow when tapped, about 30 minutes.

Steps:

• 1. In bowl of a stand mixer, combine oats, flour, yeast and salt. In a 2 cup measuring cup, warm milk in microwave until hot, but NOT boiling. Add butter. Stir to melt. Stir in lukewarm water and honey. ( I slightly warmed my honey to make it easier to pour.)
• 2. Pour the milk mixture into the flour mixture. Mix with dough hook until incorporated, scraping sides of bowl if necessary. On setting 2 of a KitchenAid mixer, knead for 5 minutes. If dough climbs the dough hook excessively, add flour 1 TB. at a time until dough cleans sides and bottom of bowl. You want it to be slightly sticky, not gooey. It's ok if it climbs the hook, as long as the dough cleans the sides and bottom of the bowl. (You want it to be a little sticky to the touch because the dough will pick up more flour later when you shape your loaves.)
• 3. Place dough in buttered bowl, turning once to coat. Cover loosely with sprayed saran wrap. Place in a warm, draft-free area until doubled in size. (About an hour... depends on temp.) I like to turn my oven on to 200 degrees and place the covered bowl on a hot pad on top of the stove.
• 4. When doubled, dust counter lightly with flour, 2-3 TB. should do. Punch your beautiful, fluffy dough down, then fold in half 2-3 times, pressing out the air bubbles. Divide dough in half and form loaves. (If your new to bread making, take a minute to learn "how to shape bread loaves" online. There are some great YouTube videos as well that give great tips. It's a really important step for beautiful looking loaves.) Place in two 8 1/2 x 4 1/2 buttered or sprayed loaf pans. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=859Wn3RIJrI
• 5. Lightly grease top of loaves with a little very soft butter and cover loosely with sprayed saran wrap. Let rise until loaf is 1-1 1/2 " above pan. Rising too much will produce a very airy bread that won't slice well. Rising too little, will produce a dense, heavy loaf. Again, somewhere around 45-60 minutes, depending on the temp of your kitchen.
• 6. When 1-1 1/2" above pan, bake at 350 degrees for 30-40 minutes. Watch closely since every oven is different. To know if it's done, I remove one of the loaves from the oven and tilt it into my hot pad covered hand. Just tilt it, don't remove it from the pan. Look at the bottom. If it's a nice golden brown, it's ready. If it's still pale-looking, return it to the oven for a few minutes and repeat. (If you take it out when it's not golden, it will not be sturdy enough to hold the bread up when you cool on wire racks.)
• 7. When the bottom is a golden brown, remove immediately from pans and cool completely on wire racks. Don't cut for a few hours, or you won't get nice slices. (Sometimes, I even wait until the next day.) Brush tops of loaves with a little melted butter. Enjoy!

Steps:

• sprinkle yeast into warm water and allow to dissolve. Set aside.
• In a large mixing bowl, combine the wet ingredients and oats and salt. Mix well.
• In a separate larger bowl combine dry ingredients--wheat germ, flour, etc.
• Gradually mix dry flour mixture into oats mixture, blending well, until a soft dough is formed. (I usually do this with a wooden spoon.) Add a little more flour if dough is still sticky.
• Coat hands well with vegetable oil so dough will stick less.
• Knead dough by hand for 8-10 minutes on a floured bread board or hard surface.
• Form dough into a ball, place in a greased bowl. Cover with cloth and place in a warm place and let rise to double in bulk, about 1 hour.
• Punch down and form into two loaves. Place in two greased 9 x 5-inch loaf pans, and let rise again until well rounded above tops of pans.
• Bake in preheated 350 degree F oven 55-60 minutes.

Steps:

• In a small bowl, combine the boiling water, butter, salt and sugar. Stir in oats; cool to lukewarm. In a large bowl, dissolve yeast in warm water. Stir in the molasses, brown sugar and 1 cup flour. Beat until smooth. Stir in oat mixture and enough remaining flour to make a stiff dough. , Turn out onto a floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic, 6-8 minutes. Place in a greased bowl, turning once to grease top. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 1-1/2 hours. , Punch dough down. Turn onto a lightly floured surface; divide in half. Shape each portion into a ball. Cover and let rest for 10 minutes; Shape into loaves. Place in 2 greased 9x5-in. loaf pans. Cover and let rise until nearly doubled, about 1 hour. , Bake at 375° for 30-35 minutes (cover loosely with foil if top browns too quickly). Remove from pans to wire racks to cool.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x5-inch loaf pan and set aside.
• Cream together the shortening and sugar. Add eggs and vanilla; beat until fluffy.
• Sift together the flour, oatmeal, baking soda, salt and cinnamon. Add dry ingredients alternately with bananas and milk. Mix until blended.
• Fold in raisins and pour into prepared pan. Bake for 50 to 60 minutes; remove from oven and cover for 5 minutes.

Steps:

• In bread machine pan, place all ingredients in order suggested by manufacturer. Select basic bread setting. Choose crust color and loaf size if available. , Bake according to bread machine directions (check dough after 5 minutes of mixing; add 1-2 tablespoons of water or flour if needed)., Freeze option: Securely wrap cooled loaf in foil and then freeze. To use, thaw at room temperature.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter an 8 1/2 x 4 1/2 x 2 1/2-inch bread pan.
• In a large bowl, mix together flours, steel-cut oats, rolled oats, brown sugar, salt and sifted baking soda. Mix well with your hands.
• Make a well in the center of flour mixture. Pour in buttermilk. Working from the center of the bowl in concentric clockwise circles, with fingers outstretched, stir buttermilk into flour mixture. (You can use a rubber spatula instead if you don't like getting dough on your hands.) This should take about a half a minute at most. Dough will be quite moist. Use a rubber spatula to scrape into bread pan and smooth out the dough to fill pan evenly ( the pan will be filled only about halfway.)
• Place in the oven and bake 40 minutes, until dark brown and a tester inserted comes out clean. Remove from pan and cool on a rack.