Go Back

Pine Bark Bread

Pine Bark bread is a bread loaf made with pine bark flour and traditional bread flour. We add the bread flour to compensate for the lack of gluten in pine bark flour that is needed for any bread to rise.
Print Recipe Pin Recipe

Ingredients
  

  • 1 cup bread flour
  • 1/2 cup pine bark flour
  • 2 tsps. active dry yeast
  • 1 tbsp. white sugar
  • 1 cup warm water

Instructions
 

  • Combine the yeast, sugar and warm water in a bowl and stir to dissolve the sugar.
  • Add a tablespoon of the bread flour to the warm water mixture and stir
  • Let the yeast/water mixture sit for 10 minutes to activate and proof the yeast.
  • Add the remaining bread flour and pine bark flour to the bowl and turn and mix with your hands or knead in a mix-master with a dough hook or in a bread machine on the dough cycle.
  • Lightly oil a metal bread pan.
  • Roughly shape the dough into a loaf shape and drop into the bread pan.
  • Cover the dough in the bread pan with a warm, damp dish towel and let rise for 1 hour
  • Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
  • Bake for 25 minutes.
  • Remove from the oven and let rest in the pan on the stove top for 15 minutes.
  • Remove from the bread pan, slice and serve.
Tried this recipe?Let us know how it was!