Fans of wholemeal will love our Classic Wholemeal Loaf. A great intro recipe for those new to baking, our wholemeal loaf makes homemade sandwiches extra-special. Just follow our six-step guide using Allinson's wholemeal dough and share with the whole family. Fans of the Classic Wholemeal Loaf are likely to enjoy our Wholemeal Wreath Recipe, just as tasty and a beautiful centrepiece.
Mix the flours, yeast and salt in a big bowl. Mix together the melted butter, sugar and water, then mix in with a cutlery knife.
Step 2:
KNEAD Tip onto a lightly flour dusted surface and knead for 10 minutes (or use the dough hook attachment on your mixer).
Step 3:
RISE
Lightly grease the mixing bowl with some oil. Put the dough back in, cover the bowl with a clean tea towel and leave to rise until doubled in size.
Step 4:
SHAPE
Knock back the dough by gently kneading just 5 times to get the air out. Mould into a smooth oval and lift into a lightly oiled 900g/2lb loaf tin.
Step 5:
PROVE
Cover the dough again with a clean tea towel and leave to prove until doubled in size again. Preheat your oven to 200°C (fan 180°C, gas mark 6).
Step 6:
BAKE
Lift the tin onto the middle oven shelf and bake for 35-40 minutes, until you can lift the bread loaf from the tin and when you tap the base it sounds hollow. Cool on a wire rack.
Ingredients
MetricImperial
For the Dough
400gAllinson's very strong wholemeal bread flour
100gAllinson's Strong White Bread Flour
1 sachetAllinson's Easy Bake yeast or Allinson's Time Saver Yeast
1.5 tspSalt
50gButter (melted)
1 tbspBillington's light muscovado sugar
300mlWarm water
Utensils
2lb loaf tin
Recipe Reviews
Absolutely delicious!
This is a consistently successful bake for me and I make it weekly. More recently, I’ve been adding a couple of handfuls of mixed seeds and it is now beyond delicious. It slices beautifully and freezes well too. Thank you!
I love this recipe. I have never made bread as thought it would be too hard. This is so easy and my husband loves it. It seems to last us longer as well ! I am going to be trying some of the other things on here too.
Excellent the best recipe I have found so far
I have been baking bread for years usually spelt bread and never looked for another recipe until recently as I could only get wholemeal flour. I have used other Baking Mad recipes always successfully so searched and found this. Perfect results, easy and delicious. I always use honey and olive oil instead of butter and sugar but still perfect results! Thanks once again!
