The Best-Ever Country Seed Bread Recipe

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Here's An Easy & Delicious Bread Recipe for Your Bread Machine

The Best-Ever Country Seed Bread Recipe is a delight to throw together using your bread machine. Most recipes for your bread maker are easy, but not all are as delicious as this one is. It always receives rave reviews and is a staple at our house. We have it whenever we are having a homemade soup dinner or a celebratory meal, like our Easter Dinner Menu. It is also great to take as a contribution to a potluck dinner or to serve with a light salad lunch or supper. I'm sure it would be a great everyday bread. However, with two teenagers in the house, a loaf a day would not be enough so I use this recipe for adding bread to a meal rather than for our everyday bread. Whatever way you choose to serve it, I am sure you are going to love it!

This recipe was given to me by a friend named Dora possibly as many as 16 years ago when I lived in Winnipeg. I don't expect either of us knew it would become the best bread recipe in my collection! However, it did and in my mind I think of it as 'Dora's Country Seed Bread.' She was given the recipe by her mother who found it in a newspaper and I am happy to share it with you now!

A picture of my bread is yet to come...meanwhile you can enjoy this picture and click here to buy this charming poster of the 'Lady With Fresh Bread' by Lowell Herrero at AllPosters.com.

The Best-Ever Country Seed Bread Recipe 

Ingredients:

1 1/4 cups water
2 tbsps honey
2 tbsps vegetable oil
1/4 cup flax seeds
2 tbsps seasame seeds
1 tbsp poppy seeds
1 1/2 tsps salt
2 tsps yeast
2 cups white flour
1 cup whole wheat flour
  • Cooking a loaf of bread in your bread machine is, as you probably know, a very simple affair. However, you will have to know your machine and follow the instructions for it. My machine requires that you put the wet ingredients in, then the dry ingredients with the yeast on top, especially if you are not planning on starting your bread machine right away. I simply load the ingredients in the proper order and four hours and ten minutes later, the house is overflowing with the delicious smell of homemade bread!

    This loaf is just enough to feed four hungry people who love homemade bread as an accompaniment to a homemade soup supper.

"The bread machine could be called the greatest invention since and for sliced bread!"

~~ Robin Hood

Panasonic's SD-YD250 Automatic Bread Maker from Amazon 


I chose to feature this Panasonic bread maker here for three reasons. Because it is Amazon's best-selling bread machine, because it receives very good Amazon customer reviews and because I believe the price is right. These three factors convince me that this is a good unit. Unfortunately, I am unable to recommend my own unit because I am not pleased with it.

The Panasonic SD-YD250 bread machine does everything you would expect a bread machine to do. It mixes, kneads, rises and bakes loaves of bread in three sizes up to 2 and a half pounds. It includes settings for various types of bread and has a delay timer. Naturally, you just place the ingredients in the pan and the machine does the rest.

Amazon Customer Reviews:

"The bread consistency is excellent." ~~ Henry Perkins, California

"You get what you pay for in this world and the Panasonic SD-YD250 is a perfect example. Quiet as a mouse. No jumping around the counter and whining." ~~ Anthony T. Curtiss, Minnesota

"...to the point, I'm thoroughly impressed with this machine. It is solid and quiet. I took the first loaf I made with it and sliced it to find an absolutely even loaf." ~~ Timothy Spears, New Mexico

You will find 468 more reviews on Amazon's site, if you want to check them out! Click here to read more about or to buy this automatic bread maker from Amazon.

List Price: $300.00
Amazon Price: $122.48

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An environmentally friendly choice for storing your bread.


I love the idea of this bag by Best, an environmentally friendly idea that will keep your bread from spoiling. Features a wide opening to accommodate homemade bread. It is made of a twill cotton and polyester blend canvas with a lining for air tightness. Dishwasher and machine washable, it is designed to last for years and retails for just $10.95 at Amazon.

Click here to buy this fun, reusable bread storage bag from Amazon.

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The Totally Bamboo Crumb Board 

An environmentally friendly choice, this bamboo crumb board is cured so that it will not split over time. Designed so that the crumbs will fall through, this would be a very thoughtful gift for any homemade bread lover on your list. Amazon's customer reviews are all 5 stars and the top one by Myrtle in Arizona reads, "I have had this board for several months now. It's quite a nice cutting board. The slots are perpendicular to your knife cuts, the crumb cover removes easily, and it's a nice size without being big and bulky. Did I mention well made? It is just plain nice to use!"


Click here to buy the Totally Bamboo Crumb Board from Amazon.
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Which is better bread homemade by hand or bread homemade by machine? 

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Homemade by hand is definitely better & worth the extra effort!

BarbRad says:

I like to make mine by hand. i know how to do that. When i read the instructions for the bread machine I inherited from my mom I just get confused. When i make bread by hand it's easy to double a recipe if I need to.

Jimmie says:

I make all our bread by hand. I've had machines before, and I never liked the big hole it put in the bottom of the loaf. However, it is a real time saver for making dough which you can reform and bake in the oven.

Bread machine bread is as good as that made from hand and the ease of making it makes it the best choice.

AdrianaCopaceanu says:

I made bread by hand many, many years ago. But as soon as I discovered the bread machine, I haven't been without. We are on our 9th bread machine in 19 years, and wouldn't be caught without one. Making fresh bread every day is really easy with a bread machine.

 

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