Oat Bread

Ingredients:

1. 1 1/4 cups water
2. 2 tablespoons olive oil
3. 1 teaspoon salt
4. 3 cups flour (I use bread flour)
5. 1/2 cup rolled oats
6. 2 tablespoons brown sugar
7. 1 1/2 teaspoons active dry yeast
8. 1 tbs ground flax seed (optional)

Instructions:

1. This recipe can be made in a bread maker or not! I will add the instructions I use to make in a bread machine as I think its easily adaptable to hand mixing.
2. Add ingredients to bread machine - liquids first then dry or as per your manual.
3. Select the dough cycle and hit start. It will mix and do its first rise in the machine (dough cycle on my machine is about 1 hr 15 minutes I think)
4. When machine is done pull out the dough, it may be sticky. Knead it out onto a floured surface, add flour if you need to. Shape into loaf.
5. Place loaf into a gread loaf pan and loosely cover with plastic wrap to rise till 1 inch above the pan (about 30 minutes).
6. Bake 30-40 minutes at 350 degrees.