Bread Machine Whole Wheat Bread #2 - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 1/4 cups water
1/4 cup butter
1 egg
2 1/2 tablespoons sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
2 2/3 cups bread flour
1 1/3 cups whole wheat flour
2 teaspoons yeast

Preparation

Add ingredients in the order given to bread machine.
Set on dough cycle if baking in oven, otherwise set on whole wheat/2 lb.
After dough cycle is done remove dough from pan and flour a work surface lightly. Flour the top surface of the dough.
Punch down the dough, rolling it into a length equal to 2 greased loaf pans. This might take some work, the dough holds a lot of air. Squeeze and roll the air bubbles out.
When you have a roll double the length of of a pan cut it in half and place in the greased pans. Cover with a tea towel and set aside in a warm place to rise until doubled in size.
Rising usually takes about 45 minutes.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Bake loaves for 20 to 25 minutes, until browned. Turn out onto a rack and cool.