{"id":3670,"slug":"whole-wheat-bread-vegan","title":"Whole Wheat Bread (Vegan)","description":null,"ingredients_raw":["1 cup warm water (105–115°F)","2 tbsp (2 packages) of active dry yeast","1 pinch unrefined sugar","1 cup soy milk","⅓ cup (packed) unrefined sugar","3 tbsp vegan butter or margarine","1 tbsp salt","1½ cup walnuts (optional)","¼ cup soft tofu (mashed), stirred until smooth","2½ cups fine-milled or medium-milled whole-wheat flour","3 cups + 14 tbsp unbleached all-purpose white flour"],"ingredients_norm":["warm water","active dry yeast","unrefined sugar","soy milk","vegan butter or margarine","salt","walnut","soft tofu stirred until smooth","fine milled or medium milled whole wheat flour","+ tbsp unbleached all purpose white flour"],"steps":["In a small bowl stir the yeast in ½ cup warm water, and add a pinch of unrefined sugar. Let the yeast activate for 10 minutes.","To a large mixing bowl add the other ½ cup water, milk, unrefined sugar, melted vegan margarine, salt, tofu, and whole wheat flour. Stir with wooden spoon until creamy.","Add the yeast mixture, which should be foamy by now, and the walnuts.","Add in the unbleached wheat flour a little at a time. Stir until the dough is too thick for the spoon, then put the dough on a lightly-floured cutting board or counter top and mix by hand. When all the flour is added, knead dough for around 5–7 minutes.","Cover dough with a towel and let rise for around 1–1.5 hours. Dough should double in size.","Knock the dough down once then place 2 equal portions of the dough into 2 greased loaf pans. Let rise about 45 minutes.","Brush tops of loaves with melted margarine (keeps them from drying out) and dust with cinnamon, uncooked oatmeal, or white flour (aesthetics).","Bake in oven preheated to 375°F for around 35 minutes. When done, loaves will sound hollow when tapped.","Let cool, then unmold."],"categories":["Bread recipes","Recipes for bread","Vegan recipes","Baking recipes","Recipes using all-purpose flour","Recipes using whole-wheat flour","Recipes using margarine","Recipes using sugar"],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":null,"servings":null,"yield_text":null,"difficulty":"medium","source_name":"wikibooks","source_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Whole_Wheat_Bread_(Vegan)","source_ref":"4541098","authors_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Whole_Wheat_Bread_(Vegan)&action=history","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","extraction_confidence":null,"content_hash":"0286ab7c9ecf2aaba6e1e3aadb27ab606e42da2b0536d464cd60b6109bb231ef","created_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:31Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T17:11:31Z","notice":null,"url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/whole-wheat-bread-vegan"}