Americans love white bread,However, processing white bread removes all the bran and germ, along with approximately 80 percent of the nutrients and virually all the fiber.Sugar and hydrogenated fats are added right along with the manufactured vitamins, In the end you get a product that is pure starch stipped of the fiber and nutritional value of whole grain breads. Add water to white bread, and it forms a sticky,glue-like substance. So I found this recipe some time back, It does require a grinder. Ezekiel Bread, 2 1/2 cups of whole wheat, 1 1/2 cups whole rye, 1/2cup barley,1/4 cup millet,1/4 cup lentils, 2tablespoons great northern beans,{uncooked} 2 tablespoons red kidney beans {uncooked] 2 tablespoons pinto beans,{uncooked]

Measure and combine all the above ingredients into a large bowl. this makes 8 cups of flour. Use 4 cups per batch for bread.Pour these ingredients into a flour mill and grind. The flour should be the consistency of regular flour. Coarse flour may cause digestion problems.Measure 4 cups of flour. Store remaining 4 cups in freezer for future use.

Measure 1 cup lukewarm water, in a small bowl.Add to the water, stirring to dissolve,1 teas honey, and 2 tablespoons Red Star yeast or 2 tablespoons of any other brand.[ 2 packages] Set aside and let yeast grow five to ten mins.

In a large mixing bowl, combine the following.Flour, 1/4 cup exrta-vigin olive oil, 1/2 cup honey, 1 cup water,

Add yeast to above mixture,Stir untill well mixed. Mixture should have the consistency of slightly heavy cornbread.Spread out evenly in a 11 by 15 by 1 pan sprayed with olive oil.Let mixture rise in a warm place for 1 hour.Bake at 375 degrees for approximately 30 mins,Check for doneness. Bread should not be doughy, It should have the consistency somewhat like baked cornbread.

If you don"t have a flour mill, you can order Ezekiel flour from a baking catalog,such as the bakers catalogue [1-800-827-6836. If such flours are used, however, the texture of the bread will be entirely different from the above recipe.

Now if someone can give me the bible verse, in Ezekiel I would appreciate it, Love Irene

-- Anonymous, July 08, 2001

Answers

Irene, Thanks , I always wondered how they made that stuff. Now I know! thanks TRen

-- Anonymous, July 08, 2001

Irene if you dont have a bible ill send you one. Bob se.ks.

-- Anonymous, July 08, 2001

Ezekiel 4:9

Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.

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Also a free download HTML version that uses your explorer window to work, really cool. The search engine on line is very fast. Is this the verse one you were talking about Irene?

-- Anonymous, July 08, 2001

Okay, what are fitches? I don't see any rye listed in the quote, Cindy -- is rye "fitches"?

-- Anonymous, July 08, 2001

Bobco - glad to see you here!! Missed you when I fled the cs forum. (I still sneak back every now and again!) Got that porch on yet?!

Irene, and everyone else - what kind of grinders do you have? I have wanted one for the longest time. Wish Joel had gotten around to posting his plans for the exercise bike powered grinder - I could put Hubby to work while he's watching TV!!

-- Anonymous, July 08, 2001

Polly nope going to start looking for a new contractor in the am. Bob se.ks.

-- Anonymous, July 08, 2001

I have the Country Living Grain Mill and it's great. It does require a lot of endurance, particularly getting started grinding wheat! Mr. S. usually does the grinding for me, as I get tired of doing it after a while. We don't make bread every week, so I get somewhat out of shape with those upper body muscles. I have considered adding a belt and motor and getting wired, as maybe I would bake bread more. However, we have three bread outlet stores that are sometimes on the way to somewhere, and I can buy bread (even good bread) for nearly as cheaply as I can bake it. I also considered hooking up an exercise bicycle and belt to it. I got an old exercycle for free but it was the wrong kind...have to have the right thickness of spokes as I recall.

Anyway, when the cooler weather comes back, I will probably bake more.

I have a ram named Ezekiel. Maybe I should bake a loaf for him! Nah....the recipe looks really great, though. Thanks!

-- Anonymous, July 09, 2001

Glad to see you here, Bobco, all of us "touchy feely" folks have fled the CS forum and ardently seek peace and harmony here, among friends of fairly common mind-set!!!

Thanks, Irene, for the whole grain bread recipe, really try to avoid the white flour "poison" !!!

-- Anonymous, July 09, 2001

Polly: We own a Country Living Grain Mill, too. Bought it for Y2K but never regretted the purchase, even though they ARE expensive...

We haven't used it much this summer (just too hot to bake bread). But I anticipate that when fall returns, I'll be baking much more bread so the grain mill will be brought out of storage again. And I definitely need to use the mill as I've got enough wheat stored away to last a lifetime! :-)

-- Anonymous, July 10, 2001