Great Grandpa's Holiday Bread
From blombo 4 months ago
- 5hrs to make
- Serves 5 loaves
Great Grandpa's white bread he made for family gatherings. Always thought it was a family recipe until years later I learned he stole from someone he was stationed with in Alameda (guess it was that person's family recipe haha). Read more Anyway, we stole it and now have served it to 4 generations on our family. Recipe is listed here as Great Grandma typed it, there is some interpretation needed. I put mine in parenthesis when needed. See less
Ingredients
- 1 can of milk (I use 12 oz evaporated) shopping list
- 4 cups water shopping list
- 1 cup sugar shopping list
- 3 TBS shortening (yes Crisco) shopping list
- 4 TBS salt (I only use 3- still sounds like a lot) shopping list
- 2 cup luke warm water 120-130 degrees shopping list
- 4 yeast cakes or 4 packs rapid rise yeast shopping list
- 5 lbs flour shopping list
How to make it
- In sauce pan add first 5 ingredients, through to the salt. Bring to and let cool.
- Activate yeast in luke warm water (5 min).
- In your biggest bowl add everything to flour and knead, cover and let rise to double in size.
- Knead and divide into 5 greased bread pans. Cover and let rise until doubled again.
- Pre heat oven to 275, bake for about an hour
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