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"Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts!"--James Beard

Paska (Easter) Bread Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
14 c. flour
4 eggs, beaten
1/4 c. Crisco
1 cake yeast
1 c. sugar
1 qt. milk
1/4 lb. butter
1 Tbsp. salt
Directions:
Directions:
Mix flour, beaten eggs, Crisco, the cake of yeast, sugar and scalded milk. Let cool to lukewarm, add the butter and salt. make this mixture like bread dough. Put into an angel food cake pan to make a nice loaf.

Bake at 350º for 1 hour.
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
Mom made this Easter bread for us as we became too old for Easter baskets and she wanted to celebrate Easter as her parents and friends had been doing, probably getting the recipe from them.

 

 

 

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