Great Harvest White Bread Recipes

GREAT HARVEST HONEY WHOLE WHEAT BREAD COPYCAT

Steps:

• In a large bowl, add water, yeast, honey and salt. Let it rest for 5 minutes (or until the yeast foams).
• Add in flour 1 cup at a time, kneading it between each cup of flour added if you are making it by hand. If you are making it with a mixer (like a Bosch or Kitchen Aid), use a paddle attachment and just let it mix while you add the flour.
• Knead bread for about 5 minutes. If the dough is sticky, add only enough flour so that the dough barely pulls away from the bowl. Every time I make bread, the amount of flour I use varies - humidity and elevation will make a big difference too. I usually use between 10-11 cups.
• Preheat oven to 170 degrees; turn the oven off, and let dough rise inside the oven for 15 minutes.
• Carefully remove bowl from oven. Spray the back of your hand with cooking spray and punch down the dough. Form into a log and cut in half, forming two larger-sized loaves. Put into 2 greased loaf pans.
• Again, preheat oven (if it?s not warm anymore) to 170 degrees and let the dough in the pans rise in the oven for 20-30 minutes, or until the dough doubles in size.
• Remove dough from oven and set oven temperature to 350 degrees. Once oven is pre-heated, place the loaves back in the oven and bake for 30 minutes.
• Remove from pans immediately and let cool completely on a cooling rack.

CRANBERRY ORANGE WHEAT BREAD (LIKE GREAT HARVEST), BREADMAKER

Steps:

• Add ingredients to breadmaker pan in the order listed. I always mix the flour together with the salt and gluten before adding, and then make a well for the yeast in the center of the flour. My "mix-in" setting doesn't mix very well, so I just dumped the cranberries and orange zest on the top and it mixed in beautifully on the regular setting.
• Bake on the regular setting, light crust.

COPY CAT GREAT HARVEST CINNAMON BURST BREAD

Steps:

• Combine 4 cups flour, yeast and sugar in a large mixing bowl.
• Add water, eggs and oil, beat well until it has the consistencey of cake batter.
• Stir in salt, 7 more cups of flour. to bring the dough to a smooth, "bread dough" consistency.
• Knead in stand mixer with dough hook or by hand for 10 minutes.
• Add up to 1 more cup of flour if needed.
• Fold in cinnamon chips gently to avoid melting. *Alternately you could roll the divided dough into a rectangle and press the chips into the dough. Roll the dough up from the short side and tuck the ends under before placing in a greased loaf pan.
• Place dough in greased bowl, cover and let rise for one hour, or until doubled.
• Punch dough down and shape dough into four loaves.
• Allow to rise for another hour, or until doubled.
• Bake at 375 for about 30 minutes .