Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Baking Bread...keeping a tradition!


Lily's Great Grandma Tootie was just 9 years old when she learned how to bake bread....she has been making it all these years without fail.  There is nothing like it...secret's out...here is the tried & true recipe.  Lily tried her hand at bread for the first time.   Aren't you proud Grandma?

Grandma Tootie's Sweet White Bread 
In a large bowl:
3-tbsp yeast
1-tsp sugar
add 1 cup of warm water and let set until the yeast rises

Add:
2/3-cup crisco
2/3-cup sugar
1-heaping tsp salt
1 1/2 qts. water
4-cups flour

Whisk together
Cont. to add flour & knead until desired consistency (should be slightly sticky and form in a ball).

1 - Rise over double size in a greased bowl (cover with damp towel)
2 - punch down
3 - Rise over double size
4 - put in greased pans
5 - rise in pans

Bake at 375 degrees until golden and sound hollow when tapped.  

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