Whole Grain Bread - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    6 -10 ounces water
    1/2 cup powdered milk
    1 -2 egg (optional)
    2 2 tablespoons oil or 2 tablespoons lard
    1 tablespoon molasses
    2 -8 tablespoons sugar
    1 teaspoon salt
    1 cup oats
    2 cups whole wheat flour
    1 cup white bread flour
    1 tablespoon gluten, see note (optional)
    1 (2 1/4 teaspoon) packet yeast
Preparation
    Put 4 oz (1/2C) water in bread pan. Add powdered milk and let it sink down into the water. Mix eggs with remaining water to total 6 oz, so that there is 10 oz (4 oz+6 oz) (1.25C) total of water and egg. Add other ingredients in order given and start the machine; powdered or fresh milk cycle makes no difference, at least with my machine.
    I use WW bread flour if I can find it and eliminate the gluten; the website didn't allow WW bread flour as an ingredient.
    And sometimes I use heavier flours such as rye and spelt, substituting up to one cup of the WW flour with them. With those flours and with regular WW flour I add 1T gluten to help the loaf rise.

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