Wheat

Today I will spend several hours buying and delivering 50# bags of wheat to sisters in our ward. I am the "Food Storage Specialist" in our ward. My job is to encourage families to store a year's supply of food. You can store about anything, but I've been only focusing on the basics.

Of course, you can't get more basic than wheat. Our family uses about 50# a week. Jessica (12) and Benjamin (10) can make delicious wheat bread without any assistance. Moroni (8) can pretty much do it by himself too. We make the dough into loaves, cinnamon rolls, scones, Indian fry bread, orange rolls, garlic bread sticks, French bread, and dinner rolls. Our not-so-secret recipe is: Add 1/3 cup sugar, 2T (heaping) yeast, 4 cups very warm water
Mix and let sit and bubble for 5-10 minutes
Add 3T oil, 1T salt, and 5 cups freshly ground whole wheat flour
Beat until smooth
Add 4-5 cups more whole wheat flour
Knead until bowl comes clean, about 10 minutes, dough should be slightly sticky
Let rise for about 45 minutes
Punch the puffy dough down and form into loaves or whatever
Let rise another 15-45 minutes depending on room temperature or until dough is
doubled.
Bake at 350 for 30 minutes. Makes 3 loaves or 2 cookie sheets full of delicious
cinnamon rolls. So delicious that all 40 of them are gone within 30 minutes of
taking them out of the oven. Of course, we have 9 people in our family.

We bake a batch of bread about everyday. We also enjoy (Jaremy detests) cracked wheat cereal with brown sugar and milk. We use wheat flour for all our baking: pumpkin bread, chocolate chip cookies, brownies, muffins, zucchini bread, etc. It is so healthy, filling, and delicious! Using wheat and baking our own breads saves us thousands of dollars each year. And it fills our home with a wonderful aroma and home baked love!