“Sunny Boy Foods aims at keeping ingredients high quality. This can only be enhanced by the inclusion of organics. It’s a natural progression in the goal of providing healthy alternatives. Moreover, being certified organic provides the consumer with the insurance that these products are free of pesticides and support environmentally friendly farming practices. The Sunny Boy mill has maintained organic certification for over six years. It has also recently met the criteria for the new Canada Organic Standard.”

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“While maintaining the [Sunny Boy] tradition, the Shapkas have reinvented Sunny Boy marketing strategies from the ground up.

One of those strategies is to minimize their products’ food miles by buying milling grains from local farmers and increasing the presence of their products on local shelves.

Food miles is a term that applies to the distance a food must travel from the field to your fork. The lower the food miles traveled, the lower the impact on the environment, through farming practices and fossil-fuel transportation.”

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Ingredients

• 3 ½ cups (875 ml) Sunny Boy Organic Unbleached All-Purpose Flour
• 2 ½ cups (625 ml) Sunny Boy Organic Whole Wheat Flour
• 2 tbsp (30 ml) active dry yeast
• 3 cups (750 ml) milk
• ⅓ cup (85 ml) brown sugar
• 2 tsp (10 ml) salt
• 3 tbsp (45 ml) liquid vegetable shortening

Preparation

Combine the flours. Place the yeast and 3 cups of the combined flour into a large mixing bowl.

In a separate bowl, combine the milk, sugar, shortening and salt and mix well. Warm this liquid mixture, then add to the above dry ingredients. Beat for 3 minutes, until smooth, and then slowly add the remaining 3 cups of flour.

Turn the dough on to a floured surface and knead for 5 minutes.

Form dough into a ball and place into a greased bowl. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled in size—approximately 40 minutes.

When dough is ready, punch down, divide in half and form two balls. Let rest for 10 minutes.

Shape into two loaves and place in bread pans. Cover and let bread loaves rise in a warm place until doubled in size—approximately 30 minutes.

Bake in a preheated oven at 400° F (200°C) on a center rack for 10 minutes, reduce heat to 350°F (180°C), then bake for 25 minutes. Remove bread from hot pans and place on a wire rack to cool.

For bread machines, use the recipes developed for your specific machine

Yields 2 Loaves

Nutritional Information

Ingredients

• 6 cups (1500 ml) Sunny Boy Organic Unbleached All-Purpose Flour
• 2 tbsp (30 ml) active dry yeast
• 3 cups (750 ml) milk
• ⅓ cup (85 ml) brown sugar
• 2 tsp (10 ml) salt
• 3 tbsp (45 ml) liquid vegetable shortening

Preparation

Place the yeast and 3 cups of the flour into a large mixing bowl.

In a separate bowl, combine the milk, sugar, shortening and salt and mix well. Warm this liquid mixture, then add to the above dry ingredients. Beat for 3 minutes, until smooth, and then slowly add the remaining 3 cups of flour.

Turn the dough on to a floured surface and knead for 5 minutes.

Form dough into a ball and place into a greased bowl. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled in size—approximately 40 minutes.

When dough is ready, punch down, divide in half and form two balls. Let rest for 10 minutes.

Shape into two loaves and place in bread pans. Cover and let bread loaves rise in a warm place until doubled in size—approximately 30 minutes.

Bake in a preheated oven at 400&deg F (200°C) on a center rack for 10 minutes, reduce heat to 350°F (180°C), then bake for 25 minutes. Remove bread from hot pans and place on a wire rack to cool.

For bread machines, use the recipes developed for your specific machine

Yields 2 Loaves

Nutritional Information