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Gram Welch's Sponge Bread Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
1 c canned milk
2 pkg dry yeast
5 1/2 c flour
2 tbsp (rounded) sugar
1/3 c shortening or oil
4 tsp salt
Directions:
Directions:
Put canned milk in large pan and add 2 c hot water. Stir. Add yeast, stir. Add about 1 1/2 c flour. Put into a warm place (an un-heated oven with door closed works well) for one hour. Add sugar, shortening and stir. Add salt and stir. Add about 4 c of flour or until dough is stiff.
Knead well. Set in warm place to raise (oven again).
For rolls, let raise only once. For bread (loaves), punch the dough down and let it raise again.
Grease pans, shape dough into rolls or loaves and bake at 350 degrees. Rolls should bake about 30 min and loaves about 60 min. When done, bread will shrink. Punch top, should sound hollow. Cool on a wire rack.
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
This is my grandmother Nettie Welch's recipe. I remember her making the freshly baked rolls whenever we visited her in Ohio, and she would always make them at our house when she came to visit us in NJ. They are awesome served warm right out of the oven with a little butter on them. These are easy to make but it does take a couple of hours.

 

 

 

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