Dakota bread for bread machine

This is a chewy dense bread with a thick, crispy crust.

Basic bread 3 hour cycle setting for bread machine. Doesn't seem to need the french bread or whole wheat bread setting. I've only made this in winter up to this point so might need to modify for hot humid summer.

• 3/4 cup 8 grain hot cereal mix, put in bread maker pan
• 1 cup hot water (heated in microwave like for tea about 2') - pour over cereal, let stand for 10'
• 1 T oil, pour over paddle
• 1 T honey, pour around edges

Once 10 minutes are up and cereal is softened

• 1 3/4 cup bread flour to make floating mat over top of hot cereal mixture
• 1/2 t instant or fast rise yeast, make small divot center of flour mat and place it there
• 3/4 t + 1/8t salt put around edges 
• 2 Tablespoons buttermilk powder (optional)

Turn on bread maker. I use the basic cycle for my Regal Kitchen Pro collection Breadmaker Model No. K6725. It works really well. Takes about 3 hours to process.

I usually look at the dough while it's kneading. Last 2 batches looked wet so I added

• 1 tablespoon of bread flour.

In 40' the timer goes off and if you want you can add

• 1 T pepitas (raw, unsalted, pumpkin seeds)
• 1 T sunflower seeds

Then about 1 hour 15' before the end. if you want to, you can brush top off loaf with

• beaten egg so seeds stick (I keep forgetting this part and the seeds don't stick very well)

and sprinkle on a mixture of

• 1 1/2 t pepitas
• 1 1/2 t sunflower seeds
•  1/2 t sesame seeds
• 1/2 t poppy seeds

(Or you can skip the egg and try to add the seeds earlier so they sink into the dough)

Notes: Best if ingredients such as flour and cereal are at room temperature. I usually store mine in the fridge.

This recipe came from a TV show where it was made by hand. I tried it. Too much work!
So revised the recipe for bread machine. Could only get Bob's Red Mill 8 grain hot cereal so used that successfully. Probably could just use oatmeal or another hot cereal if you can't get a multiple grain hot cereal. I like buttermilk so I added that.

5/24/16 Tastes good even without the seeds. I make it quite a bit and many times I miss adding the seeds. I haven't been adding the 1 T of bread flour. I just start my bread machine and forget about looking at the dough.