Our Favorite Whole Wheat Bread Recipe

We searched for quite a while to find a bread recipe we really *really* liked.  We tried lots of grainy, dry, falling apart loaves of bread before finding the recipe we love!  The original recipe can be found here, but since I made some changed, I thought I'd post it separately.

Whole Wheat Bread
Makes 2 small loaves

Add the following ingredients to your machine in the order recommended by the manufacturer.

Combine milk, water, and butter and warm up. Butter does not have to be melted, but the liquid should be warm.
1 cup milk (or buttermilk)
2/3 cup water
2 tbsp butter (or shortening)
2 tbsp honey
2 tsp salt
3 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
3/4 cup cereal or seeds (7 grain rice, flax, millet, sunflower seeds, oatmeal... I usually use oatmeal and love it!)
2 1/4 tsp (or one package) active dry yeast
1/4 cup wheat gluten

Run bread machine on dough cycle.  When cycle is complete, place bread in two small bread pans and let rise ~20 minutes in a warm place. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Bake for 25-30 minutes.  Enjoy!