Importance of yeast

Ryan has been doing a lot of experimenting with bread making lately, and he has learned one very important lesson: you must always add the yeast.  If you forget to do so, you will end up with this:

What you can't tell from this picture is that this bread is hard enough and solid enough to potentially be used as a murder weapon, or at least, an attempted murder weapon.  After taking it out of the bread machine and dubbing it a 'neutron loaf,' we decided that maybe we could salvage it by chopping it up and using the crumbs in meatloaf or something.  It was able to be cut while warm and fresh, but I'm pretty sure if we followed through on our plan, we would end up destroying the food processor.

So, yes, add yeast. If you do, your bread will look like this:

This bread is soft and chewy and completely delicious.  Here's what it includes:

1 cup buttermilk, warm
1 1/2 tbsp butter
1 1/2 tsp salt
1 1/2 tbsp dark brown sugar
1/3 cup flax seeds
1/3 cup sunflower seeds
1/3 cup soy flour
2 cups bread flour
1 cup whole wheat flour
1/3 cup heavy cream
1/3 cup water
2 1/4 tsp yeast (note: yeast is crucial to success)
3 tsp wheat gluten
3/4 cup rolled oats.

This is Ryan's own original recipe, based off of months of experimenting and whatever happened to be in the pantry at the time.