honey oatmeal bread

Name: Honey Oatmeal Bread
Prep time: 3 h
Cook time: 30 min
Yield: 12
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 2 cup(s) boiling water; 1 cup(s) old-fashioned oats; 1/2 cup(s) honey; 1 1/2 teaspoon(s) salt; 2 tablespoon(s) butter; 1/2 cup(s) warm water; 1 1/2 tablespoon(s) active dry yeast; 4-6 cup(s) bread flour (you can use all-purpose as well); 2 tablespoon(s) honey, warmed; 2 tablespoon(s) oats

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Sue Lally

Vacaville, CA

Updated on Aug 3, 2023

I've been making all of my bread for a couple of years now, and this is one of my favorites. Enjoy!

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Sliced Honey Oatmeal Bread with butter and honey.

Blue Ribbon Recipe

Homemade bread is delicious and this honey oatmeal bread is out of this world good. It's a sweet bread sweetened solely with honey. Soaking the oats makes them hearty. This bread recipe encourages you to use less flour when kneading making it a stickier dough to work with, but a lighter bread when baked. Warm honey is brushed on the piping hot bread when fresh out of the oven. The honey soaks into the bread giving it a tender crust. The aroma of this honey oatmeal bread will make it impossible to resist.

— The Test Kitchen

prep time 3 Hr

cook time 30 Min

method Bake

yield 12 serving(s)

Ingredients

2 cups boiling water
1 cup old-fashioned oats
1/2 cup honey
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
2 tablespoons butter
1/2 cup warm water
1 1/2 tablespoons active dry yeast
4-6 cups bread flour (you can use all-purpose as well)
2 tablespoons honey, warmed
2 tablespoons oats

How To Make honey oatmeal bread

Test Kitchen Tips

In step 7, you could also use a dough hook to knead the bread. Knead it in a mixer, using the dough hook, on low for 10 minutes dusting it with a small amount of flour and scraping the sides occasionally.

Step 1

In a large bowl, combine 1 cup of oats, 1/2 cup honey, salt, and butter.

Step 2

Pour boiling water over, stir, and let stand for one hour.
Step 3

After your mixture has been sitting for about 50 minutes, dissolve yeast in a small bowl with 1/2 cup of warm water. I add about 1 tsp of honey so the yeast has something to "eat", ha. Let stand until creamy (about 10 min).
Step 4

Add the yeast to the oat mixture.
Step 5

Then add about 2 cups of flour. Stir until it's well mixed. Then start adding flour a half cup at a time until the dough pulls away from the bowl.
Step 6

Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface.
Step 7

Knead (adding small amounts of flour when needed), until smooth and elastic (about 10-20 min).
Step 8

Oil a large bowl (or spray with cooking spray). Place dough in the bowl, turning to coat. Cover with a damp towel or loosely with plastic wrap.
Step 9

Let rise in a warm place until doubled in size (about 1 hour). Tip: You'll know it's ready if you press two fingers in and the indents stay.
Step 10

Punch down the dough and turn it out on to lightly floured surface.
Step 11

Divide in two.
Step 12

Shape each half into loaves. Place each loaf in a greased 9x5 inch bread pan. Cover.
Step 13

Let rise until doubled (about 30 min).
Step 14

Bake at 350 for about about 30 minutes, until the top is golden brown and the loaf sounds hollow when tapped.
Step 15

When done, remove from pans and brush with slightly warmed honey and sprinkle with oats.
Step 16

Note: You can also brush the loaves BEFORE baking with milk or an egg wash and sprinkle with oats, so the top isn't sticky from the honey. Also, you can substitute 1 cup of wheat flour for 1 cup of bread flour if you like (I do).
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