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Simple, Healthy Whole Wheat Bread
Three ingredients, flour, water, and salt plus natural starter
This is a bare-bones article to make a nutritious loaf of bread. I have an in-depth article here, this is the nitty-gritty for those who don’t care to wade through all the details in the entire original article. Gluten-free bread here.
300 grams of Bob’s Red Mill Whole Wheat flour
200 grams of Bob’s Red Mill Dark Rye flour
350 grams of water
18 grams salt
200 grams natural starter
A natural starter is easy to make. It just takes time, about two weeks, or borrow some from a friend. To make your own combine equal parts flour and water in a quart glass jar and leave it in a warm spot in your kitchen covered with a paper towel so it can breathe. Add a half cup of water and a half cup of flour once a day to keep it well fed. Dump out half the jar when full. After about 10 days, you will notice it bubble and foam a bit when fed. That’s the fermentation process in action. After about two weeks it is strong enough to use. After your starter is ready you can keep it in an air-tight container in your refrigerator, but feed it once a week. Take it out the day before baking, open and feed with water and flour…