Grandma Abbie Bushong's Homemade White Bread Recipe
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Ingredients: 2 packages dry yeast
1/4 cup lukewarm water
1/2 cup Crisco shortening
2 Tablespoons sugar
4 teaspoons salt
2 cups scalded milk
1-3/4 cups water
11 cups flour
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Directions:Sprinkle yeast over warm water in small bowl and let stand until dissolved.
Place shortening, sugar, and salt in very large bowl. Add milk and stir until shortening melts. Add water and cool to lukewarm.
Add 1/2 of the flour and then yeast mixture.
Add rest of flour slowly using as much as needed to make dough not stick to hands. Some of the flour will be used to knead the dough. Knead until dough is elastic.
Place back into greased bowl and let rise in warm place until double in bulk.
Punch down and let rise again. Punch down again and divide into 3 equal portions.
Shape each part into loaf and place in well greased 8 x 10-inch loaf pans.
Let rise in warm place until thumb print in top slightly remains.
Bake in preheated oven at 350ºF. Cool slightly and remove from pans.
Place loaves on their sides on racks to finish cooling. |
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Servings:3 large loaves |
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Time:half a day |
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Notes: Associate Member from Bloomington Chapter (Bloomington, Indiana)
My grandmother, my mother and I have all made this. his recipe. My grandmother was making this in the 1930's, while my mother started baking it in the '40's. I have baked this for over 50 years and had a failure. It's fabulous both just sliced and as toast.
My grandmother would use a covered Dutch-oven on her wood fired stove to hold the dough while it raised. A visiting relative lifted the lid to peek inside only to have the dough oozing out and down the sides. In horror that nosy person tried to stuff it back into the pot to no avail. My family has laughed over this for years.
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