Someone sent me a PM asking for my bread recipe from the lost post above, and I've replied to that, but I thought I'd post it here in case anybody else was interested.
Multigrain bread recipe:
This is still a little heavier on the all-purpose flour than I like, so I'll probably start adjusting it to up the whole wheat content.
Ingredients with cost where I live
1 1/3 cup water at 80°
2 tablespoons olive oil – $.20
2.5 cups all-purpose flour – $.38
1 cup whole wheat flour – $.24
1 cup oats (rolled or quick) – $.09
1 1/2 teaspoons salt – $.01
4 teaspoons sugar – $.02
1/4 cup sunflower seed kernels (unsalted, or rinse off the salt and drain well) – $.31
1 1/2 teaspoons fast or bread machine yeast – $.21
In a bread machine, load the first two (wet) ingredients first, then all of the dry ingredients, yeast last. I use the standard cycle on my bread machine for a 1 1/2 pound loaf.
A note on "creating" a bread recipe: the secret is to just do it slowly, one loaf at a time. Basically, I started with a plain white bread recipe that I knew worked and started changing it up, one variable per loaf. I cut out butter and subbed in olive oil, cut way down on the sugar, cut out milk because I didn't want to depend on having it on hand to make bread, and started changing white flour over to oats and whole-wheat flour a little at a time. Once I had a basic loaf I liked, I added sunflower seeds. On the next loaf after I use up the premade mixes I put together for the pantry, I think I'll drop the white flour by half a cup and add half a cup of whole wheat. If that works, that's my new baseline loaf, and I'll try dropping another half cup of all-purpose flour from it In favor of more oats.
