Day 39: Walnut Wheat Bread

Another walnut bread! I think there is a section on fruit and nut breads later, in which I'll go ham on even more flavor combinations, but this bread is just a regular wheat bread with a bunch of walnuts in it. It's made with honey, which gives it a hint of sweetness, and it balances well with the wheat and nut flavors. It turns out this bread is very soft, which makes it really good for sandwiches. I think tomorrow I'm going to make paninis with it. The nuts give the bread a lot of texture and flavor, which I think would go well in a hot sandwich.

There wasn't anything really out of the ordinary in this bread. You dump your dry ingredients and then your wet ingredients and mix it until it's a dough, which you then take a knead it for a while. It took the standard two risings before I threw it in the oven and bam it was done. I've already talked about the flavors, and how well they go together, but I didn't talk about the texture too much. It's got a great color, and it's a really soft bread, with the walnuts adding a little crunch to it. It springs back when you cut it and it doesn't have a really tough crust.

I'm pretty happy with how this bread turned out. I wasn't expecting a whole lot, but it seems to be a really solid loaf of bread. If you could only make one yeasty whole wheat bread, so far my vote goes to this one. It's great all around, is different enough, and is really easy to make.