Comments on: Molasses Oatmeal Bread Machine Recipe

By: Janice

Janice — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:00:48 +0000

I just made this bread yesterday and it was delicious! Normally I don’t use that much yeast but this was perfect, the texture was light and fluffy. Thank you!

By: ACW

ACW — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 18:16:22 +0000

I thought the oats would be visible (and, thus, a turn-off to the kids)… I’m happily surprised that this loaf is *so* smooth in texture. Amazing! Thanks for posting it.

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By: Claire

Claire — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 19:27:39 +0000

I made this yesterday, following the directions exactly. This bread has a nice flavor and good texture. Thanks.

By: April

April — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:15:28 +0000

I had company over for dinner yesterday. Made a New England Boiled dinner, a loaf of your Molasses Oatmeal Bread, a Marjorie Standish Blueberry pie and it all came out delicious. Im a bread-a-holic so that was of course my favorite part of the whole meal. I will make more today for sandwiches during the week. The texture of the bread was unbelievable. Thanks for sharing this wonderful bread recipe Erin!!

By: Carys

Carys — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 12:10:41 +0000

LOVED this bread – thank you so much for sharing the recipe, Erin!
I’d been looking for a bread maker recipe for Molasses Oat Bread that used quick oats and was thrilled to find this. Not having bread flour, I substituted all-purpose with little to no difference in the overall result; the bread was absolutely delish!
Thanks again….{{off to make another loaf}}

By: Erin

Erin — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 15:53:42 +0000

Grace,

Yes, the molasses will activate the yeast much like sugar. As you can see from this recipe I used molasses entirely in this bread. I’m not sure if a 1 to 1 ratio of molasses can be used instead of sugar in all bread recipes though. You may want to google that or simply experiment a bit. I hope you enjoy your new bread machine!

By: Grace

Grace — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 15:47:07 +0000

Hi Erin,
I’ve just used my newly bought bread machine (a Kenwood BM 250) for the first time today and baked a 500g loaf of 100% whole wheat bread. The result was quite satisfactory. I followed the recipe booklet and used sugar, though I’d prefer using molasses instead. The reason why I didn’t do so was that I was not sure if molasses can replace sugar entirely as far as yeast activation is concerned. So my question is, does molasses activate yeast (I used dried yeast) as much and good as sugar, so that I can replace sugar with molasses completely? Or do I have to keep a portion of the sugar? And what is the ratio/proportion if molasses is to be used to replace sugar for baking whole wheat bread with yeast dough?
Many thanks in advance.
Cheers
Grace

By: Erin

Erin — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:30:09 +0000

Roberta,

In this recipe the molasses acts as “sugar.” It’s acidic and very sweet so it activates the yeast just fine.

Enjoy the bread!

By: roberta

roberta — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:48:38 +0000

Did you accidently leave out the sugar. Can’t imagine bread without a little. Otherwise it looks terrific. Let me know. thanks