Homemade Weetbix loaf

This delicious recipe was submitted by Starts at 60 reader John Reid. 

Ten years ago, I entered a competition with a chance to win one of six bread knives. The rules were simple: create a bread recipe that included Sanitarium Weetbix in the ingredients. I had been making a wholemeal and Weetbix loaf for several years, a favourite with my wife and I, so I submitted it with nothing to lose.

Surprise, surprise! Six weeks later and long forgotten, a package arrive by courier. It contained a beautiful fine-toothed bread knife and a letter of congratulations. 

The attached photos are of my wholemeal and Weetbix loaf. My machine is a Tefal, which I find provides a thorough mix of ingredients and a superb texture. Other brands will most likely be similar, although bread pan shape and size varies greatly.

Give it a try, the flavour of the loaf is awesome! Oh, and the smell…

Ingredients

• 600g wholemeal bread mix
• 1 sachet granulated yeast
• 1-2 tsp salt
• 1tbsp molasses*
• 430mL lukewarm water**
• 2 Weetbix crushed
• 30mL olive oil
• 1/4 cup sesame seeds (optional)

Method

1. Place all ingredients in the bread maker in the order recommended by the manufacturer.
2. Set on the machine’s extra-large wholemeal setting.

*May use treacle as an alternative

**If you are familiar with the operation of your bread maker, it may pay to start the knead with a little less water, adding more if it seems to be required. The dough needs to be moist but should never be soggy and unfortunately this is a factor that changes slightly from one machine to the next.