Whole-Wheat Sandwich Bread

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated March/April 2011, America's Test Kitchen TV

Most whole-wheat breads are either squat bricks or dressed-up white bread. We wanted hearty yet light-textured sandwich loaf that really tasted like wheat.

SERVES Makes 2 loaves

TIME 1¾ hours, plus 10½ hours resting and 2 hours cooling

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

We found ways to bump up the whole-wheat flour amount called for in our Whole-Wheat Sandwich Bread recipe: We substituted protein-rich bread flour for the all-purpose flour and soaked it overnight in a combination of milk and wheat germ. We...

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