Mom's Homemade Bread Recipe #185797
My Mom's best bread recipe. I used to love coming home from school on her days off, to the smell of home baked bread.........Yummy.
I have been making this bread since I was 12 years old. It is a simple bread recipe.
by Pink Diamond
5¾ hours | 5 hours prep
SERVES 12 , 4 Loaves
- 1/2 cup warm water
- 2 (1/4 ounce) packages traditional yeast
- 2 teaspoons sugar
- 4 cups warm water
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 2 tablespoons salt
- 3 tablespoons bacon drippings
- 9 cups flour
- Pour 1/2 cup warm water in tall glass, add yeast and 2 rounded tsp sugar. Let stand 10 minutes.
- As yeast mixture is working, pour 4 cups of of water in sauce pan, add 2 tbsp sugar, 2 tbsp salt and 3 tbsp bacon drippings. Stir until bacon drippings are melted. Shortening can be used, but the flavour is not as good.
- Pour 6 cups flour in large bowl, make a well in the middle, pour in saucepan mixture. Mix yeast well and pour into flour mixture. Add 3 more cups of flour and mix top to bottom until formed.
- Pour extra flour on counter and knead dough until smooth and elastic and no longer sticky (about 10 minutes). Place in a large greased glass bowl. Cover with clean towel and let stand for 1-½ hours in a draft free place. (Inside oven is ideal).
- Remove from bowl and punch down dough on lightly floured counter. Return to bowl and cover with towel and let stand for one more hour.
- Remove from bowl and punch down dough on lightly floured counter.
- Cut into four equal parts and roll like a baby blanket. Place in 4-greased loaf pans and cover with towel. Let stand 2 hours then bake in a preheated 350-degree oven for 35 to 45 minutes (Until golden brown).
- Remove from oven and turn loaves over on countertop (Taking them out of the pans). Let cool completely before bagging the loaves. They cool faster if you turn them around every ten minutes or so.
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