Vermont Maple Oatmeal Bread

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Vermont Maple Oatmeal Bread

Ingredients

  • 3/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons 198g hot water
  • 1/2 cup 45g old-fashioned rolled oats*
  • 1/4 cup 78g real maple syrup or 1/2 cup (78g) maple sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon natural maple flavor
  • 4 tablespoons 57g butter, room temperature
  • 1 1/4 teaspoons 8g table salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 3/4 cup 85g King Arthur Golden Wheat Flour
  • 2 cups 240g King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour
  • 2 1/4 teaspoons instant yeast
  • *Or substitute 1/2 cup 57g King Arthur Rolled Oats

Topping

  • water, to brush on crust
  • 2-3 tsp maple sugar, for sprinkling

Instructions

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  • In a large mixing bowl, combine the water, oats, maple syrup or maple sugar, maple flavor, butter, salt, and cinnamon. Let cool to lukewarm; this will happen naturally as you stir.
  • Weigh your flours; or measure by gently spooning it into a cup, then sweeping off any excess. Add the flours and yeast, stirring to form a rough dough. Knead (about 10 minutes by hand, 7 minutes by machine, or on the dough cycle in the bread machine), enough to make a nicely springy dough.
  • Transfer the dough to a lightly greased bowl or large (8-cup) measuring cup, cover the bowl or cup with plastic wrap, and allow the dough to rise for 60 to 90 minutes. It should become very puffy, and just about double in bulk.
  • Gently deflate the dough, and shape it into an 8" log. Place it in a lightly greased 8 1/2" x 4 1/2" loaf pan. Cover the pan, and set the loaf aside to rise till it's crowned about 1" over the rim of the pan, about 60 to 90 minutes. Towards the end of the rising time, preheat the oven to 350°F.
  • Gently brush the top of the risen loaf with water, and sprinkle with maple sugar.
  • Bake the bread for 35 to 40 minutes, tenting with foil after about 15 minutes to prevent over-browning. The interior of the fully baked loaf should read 190°F on an instant-read thermometer.
  • Remove the bread from the oven, and after 5 minutes turn it out of the pan onto a rack to cool. Allow it to cool fully before slicing.
  • OPTIONAL - Add ingredients to bread machine and run dough cycle. Then form into loaf or rolls. Rolls bake 15-20 minutes at 350℉.

Notes

Want to substitute artificial maple syrup (pancake syrup) for real maple syrup? Use 1/3 cup syrup, and 3/4 cup water. Your bread won't rise as high, nor taste as maple-y, but it'll be OK.