Homemade Sweet Bread
(from MethodicalImprov’s recipe box)
Source: Frances Brozovich's From Carrieās great grandma, via Dad
Ingredients
- 3 sifters of flour
- 2 T salt
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 4 eggs
- 1/4 t yellow food color
- 1 cup water
Directions
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Mix together in a bowl and let set: 3 pkg yeast, 2 tsp sugar and half cup of water heated to 105 degrees in microwave.
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Melt one cube of butter in microwave (1 min med-hi)
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Sift into tub: 3 sifters of flour, 2 T. salt, 1-1/2 cups sugar
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In a mixing bowl beat four eggs, 1 cap yellow food color, and 1 cup of water.
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Put everything wet into one container and mix; Add it to the flour mixture and kneed. Let it rise (can take up to 12 hours).
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Knead it again, separating it into 3 or 4 loaves.
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Spray bread pans.
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Smear beaten egg on top & Bake at 325 for 40 min; shut off oven and leave bread in for another 20-40 minutes; put onto cooling racks