We find this Herb bread to be delicious especially for meat sandwiches.
For the past couple of months we have been absolutely loving this recipe for Herb Bread. The recipe makes 3 regular sized loaves of bread. You could easily divide the recipe by 1/3 to make just one loaf but I usually make 3. This freezes very well or you can give a loaf or two to a friend. It definately tastes like something you would get at a specialty sandwich shop.
Mix together:
- 3 3/4 c. warm water
- 6 T. soft butter, dry milk powder, and sucanat or sugar.
- 1 1/2 t. each of thyme, basil, marjoram, and chives. If you happen to run out of one of them just increase all of the other spices to compensate for it. I often run out of marjoram and the bread is still great. 😉
- 4 c. whole wheat flour
- 3 T. yeast
- 1 1/2 T. salt
- Mix together in a bowl and let set for about 15 minutes. Set the timer or you will definitely forget about it. 🙂 Add bread flour until the dough pulls away from the sides of the bowl. I think I usually add about 4-5 cups at this step. Then knead for 6 minutes. Form loaves and place in greased bread pans. Let rise and bake at 350 for 35 minutes. When it comes out of the oven I like to top it with just a tiny bit of soft butter to make the crust soft.
Emerson Family 
is the 4-5 cups of bread flour in addition to the 4 cups of whole wheat flour?
Yes you need a total of about 8-9 cups of total flour. I like to keep it half whole wheat and half bread flour. I find that I usually use about 3 cups of flour per loaf of bread. This recipe makes 3 loaves.
When you say “bread flour,” do you mean all-purpose flour or is there a different type of flour I need to get to make this recipe?
There is a small difference between bread flour and all purpose flour. Bread flour tends to yield a nicer loaf of bread in my opinion. I always use bread flour in place of all purpose flour in a bread recipe. This recipe should work pretty well with regular all purpose flour. I have used all purpose in a pinch when I ran out of bread flour! Hope that your bread making is a success! I usually make at least 3 loaves at a time and then freeze the other two to save for later. It isn’t much trouble at all to make 3 loaves (or more) instead of 1. Take care!