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    Home » Recipes » Amish Breakfast

    Montana Honey Wheat Bread

    Published: Mar 27, 2022 · Updated: Mar 27, 2022 by Kevin Williams | 11 Comments

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    Montana Honey Wheat Bread: Ah, I remember those days in April of 2020, lots of time indoors. So I tried making this bread recipe with my daughters and, wow, it turned out so, so well. I vowed I'd make it again soon and I haven't. I think my problem is that if I am going to make a recipe at home, I usually figure that I might as well make a new one for the website. So I rarely repeat recipes at home, but this recipe was so easy, and so good, that I need find time to make it again. And you don't need much time to find with this one, it is a quick and easy bread but so, so good.

    I remember up until then I had never tried making anything with yeast with the girls and I thought they'd have fun doing it.  So I went through my Amish cookbooks and finally settled upon a bread recipe that comes from the Amish settlement of Rexford, Montana.  The cooking and baking is simple here, it has to be...the nearest grocery store is 20 miles away, although there is a small general store in the settlement for very basic staples.

    Anyway, back to our kitchen...I showed the girls the yeast and explained what it is and how it would make the bread rise.

    This was the only yeast left at the local grocery store last week, says it works in bread machines, but it also seemed to work just fine the old-fashioned way.
    In retrospect, I should have put Aster's hair up for this - I usually hear from a reader about this - because it was dangling perilously close to getting into the bowl, but here Aster is mixing and kneading the dough.....
    The girls liked getting their hands in the mix, the process wasn't pretty, but the end result was great
    We eventually got it all mixed
    After letting it rise for an hour in a warm spot, we packed the dough into loaf pans
    I put an egg wash on top and baked it and out came this beautiful loaf of bread...I can't remember the last time I baked a loaf of bread, but this definitely has me wanting to do it again
    It sliced beautifully and was extra good warm and slathered with butter
    The bread recipe came from the Rexford, Montana Amish community, here's a view.
    If you need the basics in Rexford - flour, sugar, milk - this is where you get them.
    The Amish of Rexford, Montana published a cookbook years ago, this is where I got the recipe

    So, if you want to make this bread yourself, it's super easy.  I added, by the way, a teaspoon of honey to the bread (hence the name)...There was a jar sitting on our counter, so I figured, why not?    Not sure what it really did, if anything, to the final outcome of the bread, but it didn't seem to hurt anything.   I chose this bread recipe because it was VERY easy instructions, few ingredients, and when you have restless kids, easy and simple is the way to go.  Sometimes Amish recipes can be very sparse on instructions and this one was, but the recipe had enough instructions to make it workable.  I seized upon her advice to knead as much as possible, so the girls and I had fun with that.  You may have to add a little bit more flour to make the dough not so sticky, if so, that's fine, just add maybe a ½ cup at a time as needed.   If you have not made bread before, or not made it in a long time, this Montana wheat bread is a great one!

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    🍞 Montana Honey Wheat Bread Ingredients

    • 4 cups lukewarm water
    • 1 /4 cup sugar
    • ½ cup oil
    • 1 teaspoon of hoiney
    • 1 tablespoon salt
    • 1 tablespoon yeast
    • 4 cups of white flour
    • 4 cups of wheat flour

    📋 Instructions

    1. Mix everything together in a large bowl. Knead until soft and elastic.
    2. The longer you knead the better your bread will be.
    3. Cover and let rise in a warm place for 90 minutes.
    4. Put into greased loaf pans and bake at 400 for 30 minutes.

    🍞 More Amish Bread Recipes

    If you prefer just a basic Amish white bread, this is a good one too.

    Cinnamon Raisin Bread: perfect!

    Strawberry Bread: So good!

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    Montana Honey Wheat Bread

    Montana Honey Wheat Bread

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    Course Breakfast
    Cuisine American, Amish

    Ingredients
      

    • 4 cups lukewarm water
    • 1 /4 cup sugar
    • 1 teaspoon honey
    • ½ cup oil
    • 1 tablespoon salt
    • 1 tablespoon yeast
    • 4 cups white flour
    • 4 cups wheat flour

    Instructions
     

    • Mix everything together in a large bowl.
    • Knead until soft and elastic.
    • The longer you knead the better your bread will be.
    • Cover and let rise in a warm place for 90 minutes.
    • Put into greased loaf pans and bake at 400 for30 minutes
    Tried this recipe?Let us know how it was!
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    Comments

    1. Barbara

      April 21, 2020 at 5:33 pm

      Kevin, your bread looked really good. So glad your girls enjoyed helping. Those memories will last them a lifetime........"remember when we made bread with Daddy?"

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      • Kevin

        April 21, 2020 at 6:05 pm

        Thanks, Barbara, it was good bread. I hope they do remember these activities...I am going to try homemade bread sticks with them soon

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        • Tina Silbaugh

          July 11, 2021 at 10:02 am

          Hi. I'd like to try this recipe, but I'm allergic to wheat, could I just use 8 cups of white flour?

        • Kevin Williams

          July 11, 2021 at 10:33 am

          Yes, Tina, absolutely it will work with just white flour

    2. Karen

      April 21, 2020 at 7:50 pm

      Nice! does that make 2 loaves.

      I may try this one.

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      • Kevin

        April 22, 2020 at 11:03 am

        The recipe said "three loaves", but I think I would have been hard-pressed to get 3...I got two medium-sized loaves

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    3. Shawn Ruth

      April 22, 2020 at 6:52 am

      I think I am missing something. How many loaves does this make?

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      • Kevin

        April 22, 2020 at 11:05 am

        I'd say two medium-sized loaves is realistic from this...or maybe one giant loaf or three tiny ones, but I divided the dough into two and got two nice loaves.

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    4. Kim Ober

      July 14, 2021 at 1:47 pm

      Can you make this recipe into rolls instead of bread loaves?

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      • Kevin Williams

        July 14, 2021 at 1:55 pm

        I wouldn't see why not....probably be good like that, enjoy!

        Reply
    5. sally gaimo

      April 06, 2022 at 10:11 am

      can this be made in bread machine?

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