Pickle-Juice Bread-Machine Bread

This recipe, the product of long experimentation, produces a dense and zesty loaf. Warning: highly addictive (in the best way)!

• Preparation Time: 10 mins
• Cooking Time: 3 hr
• Total Time: 3 hr 10 mins
• Calories: 178 Calories

Ingredients

• ¾ teaspoon salt
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• ¾ cup rolled oats
• ½ cup water
• ½ cup wheat germ
• 1 teaspoon active dry yeast
• 3 ½ tablespoons white sugar
• 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 1 ¼ cups whole wheat flour
• 1 ½ cups pickle juice

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Put dill pickle juice, water, vegetable oil, salt, white sugar, wheat germ, oats, whole wheat flour, all-purpose flour, and yeast, respectively, in the pan of a bread machine.

Step 2

Select Sandwich and Three-Pound Loaf settings; press Start. Cycle should take about 3 hours 10 minutes to complete.

Step 3

Remove loaf from bread pan and allow to cool on wire rack at least 20 minutes before slicing.