Here is the honey wheat berry bread I made yesterday with my Zojirushi breadmaker machine. My husband gave me this machine for Christmas in 2007, and I used it probably 10 times since then. However, it is very easy to use, and I love how it mixes all the ingredients for you. There was a little book of recipes that came with the machine. My favorite recipe is Honey Wheat Berry Bread. I am not sure why it has the word “berry” in it, because there are no berries in the recipe at all. However, the bread is very tasty and somewhat healthy…or better to say, at least I know which ingredients it consists of. 🙂

I was slightly disappointed to find out that most wheat breads have white flour in them. It allows the bread rising better when baking. So, my favorite recipe of a wheat bread consists of 4-1/4 cups of bread flour (which is white flour!) and ½ cup of cracked wheat to make it more healthy. To make it “even” healthier, I used 2 cups of wheat flour and 2-1/4 cups of bread flour.

So, just in case someone has the same machine (Zojirushi Model: BBCC-X20), here is the recipe:

 Honey Wheat Berry Bread

1-3/8 cups – Water

4-1/4 cups – Bread Flour

1/2 cups – Cracked Wheat

3 tbsp – Honey

1-1/2 tsp – Salt

2 tbsp – Butter

2 tsp – Active Dry Yeast…and relax! 🙂

Can there be anything better than hot home-made bread!