Grandma Amelia's White Bread
This recipe came from Pam and it's how Grandma Amelia made white bread. Pam: "Well, I found something I wrote down that Grandma told me about. First, I want to say I think she had a lot of variation to the recipes she had based on years of experience. Hope this helps."
Comment from Pam: I make no guarantees with this as Grandma's was so great at cooking she didn't even need a recipe. This was only from some notes I took when she told me how she made it.
You take care and let me know if this works. Remember we live at high altitudes here and that makes a big difference in the cooking of things.
Pam
Ingredients
| Ingredients | |
|---|---|
| 1 Cup | warm water (100 degrees) |
1 pkg |
active dry yeast (I know she used the brand Red Star) |
| 1 ½ cups | Milk |
| 2 T | sugar |
| 1 T | butter |
| 2 teaspoons | salt |
| 5½ to 6¼ cups | flour |
Preparation
-
Dissolve yeast in 1 cup of warm water (not hot) and sugar. I measure liquid temperature to be about 100 degrees before adding yeast.
- Heat milk, salt and butter until the butter melts. Let cool before adding yeast. (If you do not cool, you will kill the yeast.) After mixture gets to about 100 degrees, then mix with yeast mixture.
- Add flour in small amounts until it looks just right.
- Knead on floured surface until smooth.
- Shape in a ball and put into a Pam sprayed bowl and cover with T-towel. Let rise in a warm place until double. I put a bowl of hot water under the dough mixture to help it rise.
- Punch down and divide in half.
Cover and let rest.
After about 20 minutes .
- Shape into 2 bread loaves and put in greased or Pam sprayed "Small" bread loaf pan.
Cover with T-towel and let rise until double.
About 1 hour
- Cook in 375o oven
- 45 minutes to 1 hour if in Colorado due to high altitude
- 30 to 45 minutes if in Oregon
- If top gets to brown you can cover loosely with foil.
- Remove from pans.
- Immediately baste with butter and cover with T-towel until cool.
