World's Best Wheat Bread

This is my new favorite Homemade Bread recipe. Beware, this makes 4 loaves, so adjust the recipe if you want to make less. :) I put off trying this because to me it just sounded like extra work that I wasn't willing to put in. Yet, I realize that it's really not. It's EASY and tastes wonderful, and it slices beautifully. Yay! This recipe is from Cami Harris, but the picture I found at www.the-end-time.blogspot.com

World's Best Wheat Bread (makes 4 loaves)

6 cups of warm water from the tap. Heat water in microwave if you need to to reach 120-130 degrees.
3/4 cups honey, if you don't have any use 3/4 cup brown sugar with some molasses for color.
2 Tablespoons salt
*Stir these ingredients together.

*Sprinkle over the above ingredients, evenly.
1 cup oil (I used Canola)
3 Tablespoons Yeast
1 cup whole oats
2 cups wheat flour
1 cup gluten flour
Optional: 1 cup ground flax seed or 1 cup bran
*Let sit for 10 minutes, do NOT stir.

1. After the 10 minutes you should see your yeast bubbling up around the edges of your bowl. Stir mixture while adding more wheat flour until you can't stir by hand anymore. (Around 4-5 cups of flour.)
2. Dump dough onto your floured surface and continue to add more wheat flour and knead until your bread is firm and non sticky. (It should feel like a baby's bottom. Altogether, I use about 9 cups of wheat flour.) This will take you about 10 minutes of kneading. (I use a timer to make sure I've kneaded long enough.)
3. Place dough into a greased LARGE bowl, or divide and place into two bowls, to let rise. Cover with a dry cloth. Let raise for 35-40 minutes, or until the dough has doubled in size.
4. Dump the raised dough onto the counter and punch down.
5. Cut dough into 4 equal sections. Shape sections into rectangles and roll into loaves. Place loaves into greased bread pans and cover with a cloth to rise for another 30 minutes.
6. Bake all four loaves at once in a 350 degree oven for 30 minutes. *If you are baking your loaves in stoneware, add an extra 5 minutes. (For me, I ended up baking mine for about 50 minutes total-I would check after each additional 5 minutes to see if it was done- It's done when you tape it on the bottom of loaf and it sounds hollow.)

**Whole wheat gluten flour is found in the bulk section of Winco or Fred Meyers. (Bins) Ground flax seed is in the refrigerated section of the Health food section at Fred Meyers or at Bob's Red Mill. (sometimes at Costco)