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Grandma’s Bread

Marsha — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 19:47:41 +0000

Recently Aunt Linda sent me Grandma’s Bread recipe. I thought that Thanksgiving week would be a good time to share it with you.

Keep in mind, this is NOT a bread machine recipe. Grandma had to kneed the dough, let it rise, punch it down and then bake it in the oven. Also, as a woman with a husband and five children to feed Grandma didn’t mess around. If she was going to make bread, she was really going to make bread. This recipe makes about 4 loaves.

Grandma’s Bread

2 packages or 2 tbsp. yeast
2 tbsp. sugar
2 tsp. salt
2 tbsp. lard (shortening)
4 1/2 cups water (2 boiling)
12 cups flour

Dissolve the yeast in 1/2 cup of lukewarm water and set aside until yeast foams up.

Put sugar, salt,and shortening in large bowl and add 2 cups boiling water. Stir until sugar,salt and shortening dissolve. Add 2 cups cold water and let stand until luke warm.

Add foamed-up yeast and stir well. Add flour. Knead dough. Put in bowl and let rise to double size about 1 1/2 hours. Punch down and let rise again about 45 mins.

Shape into loaves and put in bread pans (Aunt Linda makes four loaves). Let rise about 1 hour.

Bake at 350 degrees 45 mins to 1 hour.

Thanksgiving and Your Zojirushi

Marsha — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 17:02:02 +0000

As you may know, I’m crazy about my bread machine. I use it to make ALL our bread. (That includes dinner rolls, bread sticks and hamburger buns too.) But I met my match in a recent post on the King Arthur Flour blog.

Zo tasty! Thanksgiving the easy way shows how you can make cranberry sauce, dinner rolls, stuffing and scalloped potatoes in the Zojirushi. The dinner rolls are no surprise. Making cranberry sauce isn’t that different from making jam in the bread machine. But stuffing and scalloped potatoes? Wow!

Speaking of the Zojirushi I use a Zojirushi BBCCX20 Home Bakery Supreme Bread Machine. That’s the white machine as pictured.

You may have noticed that there’s a new kid in town. That’s the Zojirushi BB-CEC20 Home Bakery Supreme Breadmaker.

I love the stainless steel! If I were buying a bread machine today, this is the one that I’d buy. What new features does it have? None. The only difference is the the way the machine looks. But it looks great!

Happy Thanksgiving

Marsha — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:42:31 +0000

I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

We’re going to have family over for dinner. We’re going to have ham with an apricot glaze. I’ll use the apricot bread recipe to make dinner rolls. I’ll let you know how it turns out.