Gram's Wholemeal Bread

Source & History

This is my mother's recipe for wholemeal bread. My brother Doug, from whom this recipe comes, calls it Wholewheat Bread. I watched him make it when I was in Canada in June 2011. It was the first time in a very long time that I had freshly baked bread! 

Notes

I made this last weekend for the first time (and have made it again since then) and there were a few things that you might like to note:

• molasses in Australia isn't the same as molasses in Canada - the first time I made this I substituted golden syrup for the molasses and it worked but the bread was a little sweet. The second time I used treacle - it worked really well. The bread tastes just like I remember it.
• It doesn't tell you how long to knead the bread - the recommended time is 10min. The first time I estimated the time. But the bread rose much better on the second attempt when I timed the kneading and really did do 10min.
• If you're not sure how to knead the bread, click on this link and have a look at this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5NwwX7y6Ao
• Before placing the dough into loaf pans you need to shape it into loaves - click on this link and have a look at this to see how to do that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIzKcred_lc
•  And finally, Mum said that to test whether the bread is properly cooked, you should tap it on the bottom when you turn it out of the pan. If it sounds hollow the bread is done.