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+## 25% whole wheat bread
+
+> This bread started out as an 8 loaf recipe that I made and sold at
+> church for fund raising for food for the hungry. At 5 dollars a loaf
+> it was quite successful for that year.  This makes a goo bread with
+> no preferment but it is so much better with a long preferment and a
+> long rise so less is more where the yeast is concerned.
+
+> This bread freezes well.
+
+**Formula**
+
+* 25% stone ground whole wheat flour
+* 75% all purpose house label unbleached white flour
+* 66% hydration
+* Yeast content can vary depending on how big a hurry you are in but
+  never more than 2 teaspoons
+* ~1.5% salt
+  
+*Pre-ferment*
+
+Make a poolish with 8 ounces of stone ground whole wheat flour and 8
+ounces of water and as much yeast as will lay on a table knife blade.
+
+*Mixing and dough development*
+
+Add 14 ounces of water to the poolish and a teaspoon of dry yeast
+just to kick things along.
+
+In a large bowl place 24 ounces of flour and a half tablespoon of
+salt. Mix this a little and add the poolish and mix the whole into a
+shaggy ball. Cover and let rest while you have a cup of coffee.
+
+Knead the dough in the bowl through several turn and fold
+strokes. Cover and let rest for another cup of coffee. Come back
+and dust the dough with a tight fist full of flour and form a
+smooth ball. Make sure that you scrape the bits and pieces of
+dough from the bowl and include them in the ball.
+
+**Shaping**
+
+Pour a couple of tablespoon of melted bacon fat around the ball and
+turn the ball of dough over so it is well greased and the bowl is
+also. Cover and find something else to do for about two hours or more.
+If the dough is well risen, spread a handful of flour on the table and
+dump the dough out and put the bowl in the sink to be washed.
+
+Divide the dough into three pieces and form each into a tight round
+loaf and dust with enough flour that it is not at all sticky. place
+all three on a well greased baking sheet and allow to rise and rise.
+just before baking make a slash across each loaf.
+
+**Baking**
+
+Pre-heat the oven to 450 and bake the loaves for about 40 minutes
+