Mama’s Bread

Ingredients:

  • 1 1/2 cups scalded milk
  • 1/2 cup shortening
  • 1/4 cup sugar
  • 2 tbsp salt
  • 1 1/2 cups water
  • 3 strip dry yeast
  • 3 eggs
  • 9 cups flour

Instructions:

  1. Preheat oven to 375° F.
  2. Combine milk, shortening, sugar and salt. Cool to lukewarm by adding water.
  3. Add yeast dissolved in 1/3 cup warm water.
  4. Blend in eggs.
  5. Add 1/2 flour. Beat. Add rest of flour.
  6. Set in fridge to raise. (*grandkid note)
  7. Knead dough and put into pans. Set in warm place to raise again.
  8. Bake at 375° F for 10 minutes (or 350° F for 30-40 minutes).
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Grandkid Note

Yeast notoriously needs warmth to raise. Not sure the instruction to set the dough in the “fridge to raise” is going to yield the results you’re looking for. If you try this recipe, let us know the results!

Jessica