Tassajara Bread

Total Time: 4 hrs Preparation Time: 3 hrs Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 10
• 6 cups lukewarm water
• 2 tablespoons yeast (2 pkgs)
• 1 cup honey or 1 cup brown sugar or 1 cup molasses
• 2 cups powdered milk
• 4 cups whole wheat flour
• 2 cups flour
• 3 tablespoons salt
• 1 cup oil
• 6 -8 cups flour

Recipe

• 1 step one:.
• 2 mix together water and yeast, let rest for 5 minutes. then add honey,(or brown sugar or molasses)powdered milk,whole wheat flour and flour. beat all these ingredients together well. this batter will be thick. once well mixed, let rise 1 hour.
• 3 step two:.
• 4 fold in salt,oil and flour. use more flour as needed to knead bread.
• 5 let bread rise for 50 minutes, then punch down. let rise 40 more minutes then shape into loaves. this makes approximately 5 loaves. put loaves into greased pans.
• 6 let loaves rise for 20 minutes.
• 7 bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour.
• 8 when you remove the loaves from the oven, take a stick of butter or margarine and rub it over the top crust of the bread for a softer crust. let cool in the pans for 5 minutes and remove to cooling racks.
• 9 now when my mom makes this bread, she makes half of the loaves with cinnamon,sugar,a little melted butter and raisins (my husbands favorite) make those loaves just like you would a cinnamon roll - flatten the dough out and spread the rest of the ingredients on the dough, then roll back up and put in pans.