Mom's Bread
From beckylavoie 12 years agoIngredients
- 2 packages active dry yeast shopping list
- 3/4 cup warm water (105-115 degrees) shopping list
- 2 cups lukewarm milk (scalded then cooled) shopping list
- 3 Tbs sugar shopping list
- 3 Tbs shortening shopping list
- 1 Tbs salt shopping list
- 7-8 cups all purpose flour* shopping list
- margarine or butter, softened shopping list
How to make it
- Dissolve Yeast in warm water in large bowl. Stir in milk, sugar, shortening, salt and 4 cups of the flower. Beat until smooth. Mix in enough remaining flour to make dough easy to handle.
- Turn dough onto lightly floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic, about 10 minutes. Place in greased bowl; turn greased side up. Cover; let rise in warm place until double, about 1 hour (dough is ready if indentation remains when touched).
- Punch down dough, divide into halves. Roll each half into a rectangle, 18x9 inches. Fold 9inch sides crosswise into theirds, overlapping ends. Roll up tightly, beginning at narrow end. pinch edge of dough into roll to seal well; press in ends of roll. Press each end with side of hand to seal; fold ends under.
- Place loaves seam sides down in 2 greased loaf pans, Brush lightly with margarine. Let rise until double, about 1 hour.
- heat oven to 425, place loaves on low rack so teh tops of pans are in center of oven. Bake until loaves are deep golden brown and sound hollow when tapped, 25-30 minutes. Immediated removed from pans. bursh tops of loaves with margarine, cool on wire wracks
- *if using self rising flour, omit salt
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