When I was a kid, my mother used to make (or at least, a few times she made) oatmeal bread. Now, I consider myself a pretty fair bread baker, but I’ve never been able to make bread I like as much as I used to like my mother’s oatmeal bread when I was a kid. Red River Cereal bread is really close, though.
\nCharley is making us a chowder for dinner tonight, on the condition that I bake some bread to fill out the menu. I decided to try some oatmeal bread. Here in Casco I don’t have all my recipes handy, so I just fake it when it comes to bread. It always works. The best so far was a white bread with a cup of Whole Foods cranberry trail mix thrown in. Just in case this batch is good, here’s what I did:<\/p>\n
But! Don’t try this at home until you hear from me as to whether it was any good or not! I’m a little concerned about the blackstrap molasses. If it stinks, I’ll delete this post and next time try it with regular molasses instead of blackstrap + sugar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When I was a kid, my mother used to make (or at least, a few times she made) oatmeal bread. Now, I consider myself a pretty fair bread baker, but I’ve never been able to make bread I like as much as I used to like my mother’s oatmeal bread when I was a kid. … <\/p>\n