Leslie's Homemade Oatmeal Wheat Bread

All the great bread making women I know have "their bread recipe"- not one from a cookbook. finding your recipe is a sort of motherhood rite of passage. I started with one recipe. It evolved to the point that it no longer resembles the original recipe and I call it my own. As much as I hate the crumbs on the counter, few things make me feel more like a great mother than to hear my children cheer when I tell them I am making "my" bread.

Leslie's Homemade Bread
3 c. hot water
1Tbsp. salt
1/4 c. oil
1 c. br sugar
8-9 cups flour (4 c. wheat (red and white wheat combo), 2 better for bread, 2 c. oats)
2 Tbsp. yeast
1 tbsp. vital wheat gluten
1 egg

Stir the water, salt, oil and brown sugar together. Add 4 cups wheat flour, yeast and egg. Beat 4-5 minutes . Add 2 cups "oat flour" (take oats (old fashioned or quick) pulverize in blender to make oat flour). Mix well- add remaining bfb flour and gluten. Knead 10 minutes. Place in grease bowl and cover with towel - let rise in warm spot until dbl. pounch down divide into three loaves, roll out and form loaves. Let rise again until dbl in pans. Bake 35 mins at 325.