Cindersis Ezekiel Bread Recipes

EZEKIEL BREAD I

Steps:

• Measure the water, honey, olive oil, and yeast into a large bowl. Let sit for 3 to 5 minutes.
• Stir all of the grains and beans together until well mixed. Grind in a flour mill. Add fresh milled flour and salt to the yeast mixture; stir until well mixed, about 10 minutes. The dough will be like that of a batter bread. Pour dough into two greased 9 x 5 inch loaf pans.
• Let rise in a warm place for about 1 hour, or until dough has reached the top of the pan.
• Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 45 to 50 minutes, or until loaves are golden brown.

MODERN EZEKIAL BREAD - EZEKIAL BREAD BAGELS

Steps:

• Mix warm water, yeast and sugar let stand for a few minutes.
• Mix beans and lentils together in a separate bowl.
• Mix wheat flour, barley flour and millet flour together in a third mixing bowl.
• Mix the yeast water with the beans & lentils
• Add the flour and knead until the bread is tough.
• Take 8 cups of water and boil it in a stew pot make sure the water level is at least 5 inches tall.
• If the dough is too watery add more flour - if it is too tough you should have so that coming and added more water before you finished adding all the flour.
• Shape the bagels into the shape of bagels and place them onto a floured cooking sheet and let them rise.
• Now your ready to put the bagels into boiling water to get them ready for cooking.
• Place two bagels into the boiling water - with a spatula make sure that the bagels aren't sticking to the bottom of the pot by lifting it off of the bottom of the pot.
• Remember that the beans and the lentils will probably prevent the bagel from floating like most bagels do.
• Yeast creates air pockets in the bread and causes them to rise. If the dough is too dense it will not rise. It is not a big deal. Just don't leave the bagels in the boiling water more than 1 minute.
• Place the bagels that finished boiling on a cooking sheet sprayed with cooking oil. Oil the tops of the bagels to they don't get to tough.
• Bake at 325 for 40 minutes.
• Remember Ezekiel bread isn't like any bread on the market - putting beans and lentils changes the texture of the bread and it seems to roughen up the texture.
• You're used to having flour ground extremely fine in texture. Grainy or nutty is what the breads texture is like. Nutty meaning grainy or lots of grittiness.

MIDTOWN DELI EZEKIEL BREAD

Steps:

• Combine all dry ingredients.
• Combine all wet ingredients.
• Place in large pot and heat on a low setting until the liquid is just warm to the touch.
• Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients and pour in the heated liquid ingredients.
• Fold with a dough scraper until thoroughly combined.
• The dough will be very thick.
• Portion dough into eight pre-greased medium loaf pans, and press mixture into the pan firmly.
• The dough should fill half the pan.
• Place pans in a covered area to proof for approximately 2 hours.
• When dough has reached the top of the baking pans, it is ready to bake.
• Remove pans from proof area, mist the loaves with water and dust with sesame seeds.
• Place the loaves in a preheated oven (350 degrees) for 75 minutes.
• Loaves will be dark brown when finished,while the sesame seeds will be almost white.
• Let the pans cool for 10 minutes, then remove the loaves to a cooling rack.
• Cool for 30 minutes, then serve.