Easy Arva Bread with Variations
A go-to bread recipe from Arva Flour Mills, Canada’s oldest commercial flour mill. Farm to table since 1819!
Easy Arva Bread Recipe with Variations
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Servings
3 standard loaves
Prep Time
30 minutes
Cook Time
40 minutes
A go-to bread recipe from Arva Flour Mills, Canada’s oldest commercial flour mill. Farm to table since 1819!
Ingredients
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4 tbsp Sugar
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1 cup Warm water
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2 tbsp Yeast
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2 cups Milk
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¼ cup Shortening
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2 cups Very cold water
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1 cup Arva Oat Flour
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1 tbsp Salt
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6½ cups Arva Daisy Hard Unbleached flour (divided)
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5 cups Arva Daisy Hard Whole Wheat flour
Directions
In very large bowl, combine sugar and warm water. Stir in yeast. Let stand 10 minutes.
Meanwhile, in small saucepan, heat milk and shortening together until bubbles form around edge of pan. Shortening doesn’t need to melt. Removed from heat. Add 2 cups very cold water.
When milk mixture is lukewarm, add to yeast. Add oat flour, salt, and 5 cups Daisy unbleached hard flour
Beat with electric mixer 2 to 3 minutes. Stir in Daisy whole wheat flour with wooden spoon. Knead in 1-1½ cups Daisy Unbleached flour. Knead 10 minutes or until dough is no longer sticky.
Place in greased bowl, cover, and let rise until doubled, about one, to one and a half hours
Divide into three pieces. Shape into loaves. Place in greased loaf pans. Allow to rise until doubled.
Bake at 350°F for 40 minutes.
Recipe Note
Variations:
Soy Bean Bread: Add to each loaf, kneading before shaping:
1/2 cup soy beans soaked overnight in 1.5 cups water
Drain beans and chop finely by hand or in food processor
Raisin Bread: Add to each loaf, kneading before shaping:
1/2 cup Thompson or Sultana raisins
Cheesy Bread: Add to each loaf, kneading before shaping:
3/4 cup coarse lay shredded cheddar cheese
To make white bread, omit Daisy whole wheat flour, and increase Daisy unbleached flour to 11 1/2 cups.
To make buns, divide each 1/3 of dough into 12 pieces. Shape as desired. Let rise until doubled. Bake at 350°F for 10 minutes.
If desired, brush tops of loaves and or buns with one beaten egg white, and sprinkle with poppy seed, cornmeal, or sesame seed.
For loaves with softer crusts, when removing from oven, brush with butter while still hot.
For optimum rising conditions, place bowls or loaf pans on electric heating blanket placed on lowest setting.