Muesli Toasting Bread - Granola Bread, makes the ULTIMATE toast, ready to catch sweet cream butter as it runs in rivulets and hold up scandalous amounts of your best loved jams, jellies, preserves, or marmalades.
Ingredients
1cupNature Valley Toasted Oats Mueslioriginal or Blueberry
1/2cupbrown sugarpacked
1/2cupwhite whole wheat or whole wheat flour
2tablespoonsbutter
1tablespoonkosher salt
2cupsboiling water
1tablespoonactive dry yeast
1/4cupwarm water
4cupsall-purpose flourplus up to 1 cup extra for kneading and dusting the counter
extra melted butter for brushing the loaf
Instructions
Use a whisk to combine the Nature Valley Toasted Oats Muesli, brown sugar, wheat flour, and salt in a medium large mixing bowl that is heat safe. Drop the pat of butter on top, pour the boiling water in, and whisk until the sugar is dissolved and the butter is melted. Cover the bowl and let it come to room temperature. Stir in the warm water and the active dry yeast until evenly combined. Add the all-purpose flour to the bowl and stir with a sturdy spoon until you have a shaggy dough. Turn out onto a generously floured work surface. Knead, adding flour 1 tablespoon at a time, until you have a smooth, cohesive, still slightly tacky dough. Put into a mixing bowl (it can be the bowl you used to mix up the dough, scraped clean), cover with a damp tea towel, and leave undisturbed to rise until double in size, about an hour, depending on room temperature and humidity.
Divide the dough in half, shape, and place into lightly greased bread pans. Cover again with the tea towel and let double in size once again. While it is doubling, preheat the oven to 350F. Bake the bread for 30 minutes, brush with melted butter, and return to the oven for another 5 to 10 minutes, or until golden brown on top. Remove the pans from the oven and turn the bread out onto metal cooling racks. Let cool completely before slicing. This bread is wonderful as toast!
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