Oat {Oatmeal} Bread

Oatmeal Bread

Yield: 2 Loaves

{Jen in the Wilderness}

1 cups oats

2 cups water

2/3 cups brown sugar, heaping firmly packed

3 tablespoons oil

2 packages yeast (or about 2 tablespoons)

1/3 cup warm water

pinch of sugar

2 teaspoon salt

5 cups flour

Boil water and pour over oats.  Let cool.  Add brown sugar and oil.  Dissolve yeast in 1/3 C water.   Sprinkle with a pinch of sugar.  Let raise and add to rest of mixture.  Stir in salt, add flour, and knead till dough is smooth.  Leave dough in same bowl, cover with a towel, and let raise for 1 hour.  Divide dough and form into two loaves.  Grease bread pans and sprinkle with oats.  Place loaves into pans. Let raise again for 1 hour and then bake at 350 F for 35 minutes.  Butter tops when cooked.