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Directions:Sponge: Dissolve the yeast cake in the water, add flour and mix well. Set aside in warm lace (cover) to rise nearly double. Requires from 30-45 min (catch it before it stars to fall, Ginny)
Sift flour in large pan, keeping back about a half cup, as you might not need it all. Make hole in flour, add sponge, warm milk, salt, sugar, and Crisco. Mix all together with a large spoon until stiff enough to knead lightly. Use just enough flour so when you knead it, it won't stick to your fingers. Then take some crisco and smear around the sides and bottom of the pan, and knead just enough to make dough greasy. Turn the roll of dough over, pat down and cover with a dish towel and let rise in warm place until nearly double its size.
Knead down lightly, divide dough into loaves, shape, place upside down in loaf pan and let rise again until loaf begins to get up over edge of pan or double in size. Bake in moderate oven (350º) for about 35 minutes or until when you take it out of the pan, you can press in on the sides of the loaf ad it comes back out. Oh, yes, spread with melted butter. Ginny this should make to loaves plus one pan of hot rolls 9its just half the recipe I use). Good luck |
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Notes: This is my Grandma Johnson's recipe. Note it's written directly to mom (Ginny), her daughter. Note: I have Grandma Johnson's actual cookbook where she kept meticulous notes about how and when she used each recipe, noting how many loaves she made and any variations on the recipe. Cool reading!
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