Last Updated:  23 April 2007

WHITE BREADS

Whie Sour Dough Bread

RECIPES

Fiegele (Bread Shaped As Birds)

Pepper Bread

Plain Yeast White Bread

Potato Bread

PLAIN YEAST WHITE BREAD

RECIPE #1

1 tbs butter or margarine or shortening

2 tbs sugar

2 1/2 tsps salt

1 c. scalded milk

1 c. hot water

1 cake lukewarm water

6 c .sifted white unbleached flour

1 tbs butter or shortening or margarine for greased bowl

1. Place 2 to 3 tbs of flour on a bread board
2. Scald the milk and add the 1 c hot water, sugar, salt
3. Place the yeast cake into the 1/4 c lukewarm water so it will soften
4. Add 3 cups of the flour and beat thorougly with a spoon
5. Add 2 more cups of flour and mix well.
6. Add a little more flour so it isn't sticky
7. Place the dough onto the floured board and knead with your hands until mixture is smooth and elastic to the touch
8. Bubbles may be seen under the surface
9. Grease large mixing bowl and place the dough into the bowl.
10. Cover the bowl
11. Let stand in a warm place until it doubles in size
12. After the dough has doubled cut it with a knife and turn the dough over and over several times
13. Grease pans you plan to use
14. Part the dough and shape as you desire into rolls or loafs of bread
15. Let the dough raise until it's about doubled in size
16. Meanwhile, start oven at 375 degrees to 400 degree
17. When dough has risen place in oven and bake.  Rolls will take about twenty minutes and loafs will take longer, maybe thirty-five to forty  minutes, or until brown

Variations:

• You can add 1/3 c. of dried currants in loafs after the first rising of the dough
• You can add 1 c .of raisins with 1/2 c of sugar
• You can add 1 c. seedless raisins and 1 c broken walnuts or pecans
• You can add 1 c. crushed spanish peanuts with 1/2 c sugar and several tsps. of cinnamon

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