Solar Oven Recipes: Wheat Bread

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Ingredients: 

• 4 cups of warm water
• 2 Tbsp of yeast
  
• ½ tbsp of sugar
  
• 1 tbsp Salt
  
• 1/3 cup of olive oil or canola oil
  
• 1/3 cup of honey
  
• 11/2 tbsp of dough enhancer
  
• ½ cup of wheat gluten
  
• 9 cups of wheat flour
  
• 2 cups of white flour

Steps: 

• Place solar oven outside to pre-heat. (This needs to be an oven with sufficient height (space) for bread loaves)
• Grease or spray three dark (blackened) bread pans
• In a large mixing bowl add warm water, sugar and yeast. (You can use a mixer or you can mix and knead by hand)
• Add all the rest of the ingredients, except white flour, to the water-yeast mix.
• Mix well on medium speed for about 5 minutes or knead by hand for about 12 minutes to allow the wheat gluten to set in.
• As you mix the wheat flour mixture add the white flour as you mix or knead until the dough ceases to be wet or sticky.
• (The white flour is used to lighten the weight and density of the bread loaf, but if you prefer all wheat flour, you can do so.)
• Form the dough into three loaves and place inside greased pans and cover with towel to prevent drying of dough and to help retain warmth of dough.
• Place in a warm location to help the dough rise more quickly. (I place mine near a sunny window)
• Make sure that your solar oven temperature is at least 260° F, preferably 325-350°F(The temperature will drop initially after placing dough inside of oven, but will rise again and finish near its highest level)
• When the dough is raised; quickly place all three pans in solar cooker if permissible.
• If you do not have a solar cooker that is large enough, then place two in and leave the third one in the refrigerator in the meantime to retard the expansion of the yeast and dough.
• Adjust solar oven towards sun.
• Set timer at 60-75 minutes for one loaf and 75-80 minutes for two loaves

Result: 

Bread should be light golden brown 

*For a more in depth article on gluten and its vital role in bread making click on: foodeditorials.com

Here is a news link from a TV station in Salt Lake City showing the Global Sun Oven cooking bread, along with some other bits of information.

http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=148&sid=5845295

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