This recipe was clipped from The WORKBASKET magazine and published in 1979. It looks like a promo recipe section for Chex cereals. Recipe is typed below along with a scanned copy.
Old-Fashioned Whole Wheat Bread
Save some for toasting
2 cups Wheat Chex cereal
1/4 cup sugar
2 teaspoons salt
1/4 cup shortening
1 cup milk
1 1/4 and 1/4 cups warm water
1 package active dry yeast or 1 cake compressed yeast
4 1/4 to 5 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
In large bowl combine Chex, sugar, salt and shortening. Heat milk and 1 1/4 cups water to boiling. Pour over ingredients in bowl. Cool to warm (105-115°). Stir frequently. Dissolve yeast in remaining 1/4 cup water. Stir into cereal mixture. Add 2 cups flour. Mix well. Stir in enough additional flour to form a stiff dough.
Turn onto lightly floured surface. Knead until smooth and elastic. Work in additional flour as needed. Form into a ball. Put in greased bowl. Turn to grease all sides. Cover. Let rise in warm place, free from draft, until double (about 1 hour).
Punch dough down. Place on lightly floured surface. Knead about 2 minutes. Form into two loaves. Place in two greased 8½ x 4½ x 2½-inch loaf pans. Brush tops of loaves with melted butter. Let rise in warm place until almost double (about 30 minutes).
Bake in preheated 350° oven 1 hour or until bread sounds hollow when lightly tapped. Remove from pans at once. Cool on rack. Makes 2 loaves.
More Recipes For You To Enjoy:I have made this Wheat Chex bread, as well as the Wheat Chex banana bread. Both are very good. The bread takes a little time, and you have to be involved with it, unlike a bread machine. So when its cold and wintery this is one of the recipes I choose.
Admin edit: fixed it for ya Brenda, thanks ;)
My mom use to make this when I was a kid and it is one of those things that brings back all those good memories. I now make this for my kids. This bread is very good. Great toasted the next day. My moms recipe is the same expect for adding 2 Tbsp of molasses.
I had a similar recipe, but it also had a topping made out of chex mix. (1/2 cup chex crushed to 1/4 c., 2T brown sugar, and 2 T melted butter. You sprinkled the topping over the bread mix just before baking. I loved the crunchy topping!