Mother's everyday bread^
1 servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | Cakes yeast | |
| 1 | teaspoon | Sugar |
| 5 | cups | Warm water |
| 4 | teaspoons | Salt |
| ¾ | cup | Sugar |
| 10 | tablespoons | Fat |
| 16 | cups | Flour, about |
Directions
Dissolve yeast and sugar in ½ cup water; set aside for 10 minutes.
Mix together with the yeast the rest of the water, the salt, sugar and about 6 cups flour. Beat well, then keep adding flour until a stiff dough is formed. Knead well about 10 minutes. cover, let rise.
Punch down, cover, let rise again. Put into greased pans, let rise ½ hour, bake at 350 degrees for about 50 minutes. Makes 5-6 loaves ~ enough for a week if you're lucky! Mmmmmm! Many of the recipes in this collection did not contain amounts or oven temperatures. I have typed them in as they appear in the book, typos and all.
Depression Era Recipes Patricia R. Wagner ISBN 0-934860-55-6 Entered by Carolyn Shaw 5-95
Submitted By CAROLYN SHAW On 06-15-95