Famous Henry Wheat Bread

Hi everyone!  So, I told my husband that I would be the mud-blood to let this recipe be known.  See, it has run through his family for quite and while and I have never been to his family's house or any of his siblings homes without being offered some of this delicious homemade bread. The first time my husband and I made this together his dad tried to give us instructions over the phone: "just add three glubs of oil..."  Well, that wasn't working out for us too well so here is the actual recipe.

Homemade Wheat Bread

Mix:
5 cups hot tap water
1 cup white flour
1-4 cups wheat flour
1/2 cup oil (I use canola)
3 tablespoons of yeast
1/2 cup of honey or sugar (I prefer honey)
Let sit for 10 minutes after mixing.
Add:
1/2 cup gluten (the best deal is in the food storage section at the grocery store)
1 1/2 Tbsp salt
8-12 cups wheat flour
Mix 10 minutes and let rise 10 minutes
Mix and put into greased pans (I usually have to use 4 or 5 bread pans) My husband says to make sure and "spank" the dough before you put it into the pan.  Let rise 15-20 minutes.
Bake at 375 for 30 minutes.

* we just use a stable mixer with the dough hook the whole time.

After you take the bread out of the oven, immediately transfer the loaves to a cooling rack, or if you don't have one you can use a dish towel.  Otherwise the bread will "sweat" in the pans and you will end up with nice soggy bread.  Yum Yum!  Makes the best PB&J sandwich.