White Whole Wheat Dilly Bread

Flavored with dill and dried minced onion, this white whole wheat dilly bread is light and tasty and perfect for cooler weather. Flavored with dill and dried minced onion, this white whole wheat dilly bread is light and tasty and perfect for cooler weather.

There is a tough point when you’re a food blogger. It’s when you run out of tried and true family classics. 

But once in awhile an old recipe comes back. Perhaps it’s something you didn’t appreciate as a kid. Or maybe, like this Dilly Bread, something that wasn’t (originally) healthy enough.

Flavored with dill and dried minced onion, this white whole wheat dilly bread is light and tasty and perfect for cooler weather.

Fresh from the oven!

It started when, blessed with an abundance of fresh dill, I decided to make my mom’s Dilly Bread again. Even though her recipe uses (gasp) all purpose flour. And it rose. Towered. Got so close to the oven top it began to burn. 

Now wait—if the dilly bread rises that much with (shhh) all purpose flour, what would it do with white whole wheat?

Flavored with dill and dried minced onion, this white whole wheat dilly bread is light and tasty and perfect for cooler weather.

An aerial view 🙂

Now if you haven’t tried it, white whole wheat flour is like a compromise between all purpose and whole wheat flours. It has the same nutrition as regular whole wheat, but it is closer in both color and flavor to all purpose flour. But closer isn’t the same thing. And in a delicately flavored baked good, or one that relies on lightness, it may not work out.

And so an experiment was born.

Bread rising

The first try was good but not 100% . While it rose nicely, the herb flavors were challenged by the level of wheat flavor that remains. So I doubled the herbs and… ding, ding, ding, a success!

I gave a loaf of white whole wheat dilly bread to one of my CSA farmers who ate it with cream cheese and cucumber slices. Now, why didn’t I think of that!

Perfect excuse to make it again.

Flavored with dill and dried minced onion, this white whole wheat dilly bread is light and tasty and perfect for cooler weather.

A throwback to warmer days!

White Whole Wheat Dilly Bread

Flavored with dill and dried minced onion, this white whole wheat dilly bread is light and tasty and perfect for cooler weather.
Author: Inger
5 from 1 vote
Prep Time 2 hrs
Cook Time 50 mins
Total Time 2 hrs 50 mins
Course Bread & Muffins
Servings 10
Calories 130 kcal

Ingredients
  

  • 1 1/4-ounce package active dry yeast
  • 1/4 cup water
  • 1 cup cottage cheese
  • 2 tablespoons dried onion flakes
  • 2 tablespoons dillweed
  • 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
  • 1 large egg beaten
  • 2 1/4 cups white whole wheat
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon baking soda

Instructions
 

  • Heat cottage cheese and water to lukewarm (about 110 F). Add the yeast, dried onion flakes, dillweed, sugar, salt and beaten egg, then mix together.
  • Sift together flour and baking soda. Mix gradually into the cottage cheese mixture. Adjust the flour or liquid if needed to form a soft, slightly sticky dough.
  • Knead, then let rise in a warm place, covered, until doubled in size, about 1 hour.
  • Stir and turn into a loaf pan. Let rise until almost doubled.
  • Bake at 350 F for about 50 minutes until it sounds hollow when tapped.
  • Makes 1 loaf.

Nutrition

Calories: 130kcalCarbohydrates: 23gProtein: 7gFat: 2gSaturated Fat: 1gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.1gMonounsaturated Fat: 0.3gTrans Fat: 0.002gCholesterol: 20mgSodium: 449mgPotassium: 75mgFiber: 3gSugar: 3gVitamin A: 60IUVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 41mgIron: 1mg
I am not a health professional and nutrition data is calculated programatically. Accuracy may vary with product selection, calculator accuracy, etc. Consult a professional for the best information.
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