Showing posts with label Bread. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bread. Show all posts

Monday, December 7, 2009

White Bread

1 cup milk
1/3 cup sugar
2 tsp salt
1/3 cup oil
1 cup cold water

2 yeast cakes
2 T luke warm water
6 cups flour, more or less

Scald milk -add sugar, salt and oil. Stir until dissolved. Add cup cold water, cool until luke warm. Dissolve yeast in 2 T luke warm water and add to first mix. Gradually add flour, mixing to smooth, stiff dough. Knead on lightly floured board. Place in large, greased bowl; cover. let rise in warm place until double in bulk. Punch down and knead again, make into loaves. Put in greased pans and let rise again, until double in size. When you make the loaves cover tops with melted butter.

Bake 50 or 60 minutes start at 325 degrees last 20 minutes 375.

Bea's Sour Dough Biscuits

2 cups S. milk or potato water
1/2 cup shortening
1/2 cup sugar
1 pkg yeast

Scould milk, add shortening, let cool until luke warm. Add yeast and sugar. Add flour until cake dough consistency. Let rise until double in bulk. Have ready to add to the above mixture:
1/2 tsp soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 T baking powder

Add flour until not sticky. Beat well. Let rise again. Punch down. Roll out and cut biscuits. Let rise again, about an hour. Then bake. This keeps good in refrigerator. They are delicious. I got from Myrtle Davis in 1964.

Copied by Bea Jones
Sept 2, 1971
Prescott, Ariz.

Sunday, December 6, 2009

Cinnamon Muffins

1/3 cup shortening
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg
1/2 cup flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp nutmeg
1/2 cup milk

Mix together and bake in hot oven (350) in well greased tins.

Topping

6 T butter
1/2 cup sugar and cinnamon

Boil until thickened

Saturday, December 5, 2009

Bea's Biscuits

1 level tsp soda
2 heaping tsp b. powder
3 level tsp salt

to a large sifter of flour - add milk

Denise's Banana Quick Bread

1/3 c shortening
2/3 c sugar
2 eggs
1 3/4 cup flour
2 3/4 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup mashed banana
1 cup walnuts (optional)

Beat shortening until creamy and glossy. Gradually add sugar, beating until light and fluffy. Add eggs. Sift dry ingredients and add alternately with bananas. Add nuts. Grease bottom of loaf pan and bake 350 for 60-70 minutes.