Whole-Wheat Maple-Walnut Oatmeal Bread, aka Delicious Bread

It's cold today! It's been in the single digits all day. I didn't ride with Pedal to Possibilities today because of the cold--I need better gloves and socks. But I do need to go grocery shopping. So I've been shoveling my walk and driveway and cleaning the snow off of my car bit-by-bit. I can only take about 10 minutes and then my fingers start freezing.

I just walked back in the house, greeted by the scent of baking bread! Maple-Walnut Oatmeal Bread, made with white whole-wheat flour. It smells very promising!

As soon as the bread came out of the oven, I had to run some errands. When I returned, it was completely cool--and ready to try!

There is a reason maple and walnut are paired together so often That pairing works quite deliciously here!

The recipe is the same as Maple Oatmeal Bread, except, like Whole Wheat Maple Oatmeal Bread, the flour is freshly-ground white wheat. And, of course, it contains walnuts.

I Don't Think So

It seemed like a good idea. So I tried it.

It looked good. It smelled wonderful. It tasted fine.

But I don't think so.

Whole-Wheat Maple Oatmeal Bread with cinnamon and raisins.

But the cinnamon and raisins overpower the maple and oatmeal. Especially the maple.

On the other hand, this encourages me to try making my "regular" Cinnamon-Raisin Bread with 100% white whole-wheat flour!

Whole Wheat Maple Oatmeal Bread

This is good-tasting bread! The maple and the oats are prominent and yet complemented by the whole wheat.

I hope other people like this bread, because I want to keep making it. It gives me satisfaction to bake bread and rolls for people. It gives me great satisfaction to bake whole-grain bread and rolls for people!

This is the same as the Maple Oatmeal Bread. Except the flour is all whole wheat, freshly-ground, of course. A quarter of the flour is from soft white wheat. The rest of the flour is from hard white wheat.

 

Happy Oatmeal Month!