This looks like an excellent recipe, and once the weather cools off some, if it ever cools off again, I’ll be making this. Thanks for sharing.
Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: meward1954--- via Cookinginthedark Sent: Monday, August 24, 2020 5:29 PM To: cookinginthedark@acbradio.org Cc: meward1...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [CnD] T&T Yeast Bread Recipes Wanted please? This is my favorite. Manchet Bread 4 tablespoons sugar 2 teaspoons salt 1-1/2 cup milk 1/2 cup butter, melted, or 1/2 cup oil 2 eggs, beaten 7 to 8 cups flour 2 packages yeast 1/2 cup lukewarm water to dissolve yeast In saucepan or microwave, heat the sugar, salt, milk, and butter until very hot. Allow to cool to lukewarm. Beat in two cups of the flour. Add the room temperature eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition. Mixture must not be too hot or it will kill the yeast. Dissolve the yeast in water that is about the temperature for a baby bottle. Stir into milk mixture. Ad flour, 1/2 cup at a time, mixing, until it forms a loose, shreddy ball. Turn out onto a floured surface and knead until smooth and elastic, adding more flour as needed. It may not be necessary to ad all the flour. It can help to oil the hands so that the dough does not stick to them. Grease a large bowl. Put the ball of dough into the bowl. Then turn it over to be sure that all the surface has ben greased. Cover with a towel or with plastic wrap. Let rise in a warm, dry place. This will take anywhere from an hour to more than two. When the dough has risen, it will not spring back when pressed with the fingertips. It also makes a slight breathing sound. (Do not allow the dough to over-proof. If it has alcohol on its breath, it has over-proofed.) Gently punch the dough down. Grease two 9 by 5 or 8 by 4 loaf pans. Shape the dough into loaves the size of the pans. Then press them in. You can butter the top if you want. Whatever shape they are, that is the shape they will be. Cover again with the towel. When the dough has crested about a half inch above the top of the pan, preheat the oven to 425. Place the pans on the center rack. The pans should be toward the middle of the rack, not touching the sides, not touching each other. They should be a couple inches away from the front of the oven. Bake ten minutes. Then reduce heat to 350 and bake until done. This may take approximately 20 minutes, but you need to check them. To do this, remove from pan and turn out onto a surface. With knuckles, rap on the bottom surface of the loaf. The bottom and the sides should sound hollow and not want to give under the pressure. The top always gets done first. Or use a thermometer registered at approximately 190. If you need to put the bread back into the oven, the pan is now optional. Allow to cool completely before slicing. Spread top and sides with butter if you wish. This recipe is very versatile. You can substitute just about any kind of flour for some of the white. You can mix in 2 cups oatmeal into the dough early and then use much les white flour, perhaps substituting molasses for the sugar. You can roll it out and fill it with any kind of filling you like, sweet like butter, cinnamon and sugar, or you can make a meat filling and make your own hot pockets. I have even used it for pizza dough, though it made a more bread-like pizza crust than some people would like. Use all water if you don't have milk. I have ben making versions of this recipe for decades. It is time-consuming, but actually very easy. -----Original Message----- From: Cookinginthedark <cookinginthedark-boun...@acbradio.org> On Behalf Of Helen Whitehead via Cookinginthedark Sent: Monday, August 24, 2020 6:21 PM To: cookinginthedark@acbradio.org Cc: Helen Whitehead <hwhiteh...@cogeco.ca> Subject: [CnD] T&T Yeast Bread Recipes Wanted please? A list member is requesting recipes for tried and true yeast bread recipes. I'm hoping, that unsubscribing and then resubscribing back to the list, will enable her to receive list emails. _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list Cookinginthedark@acbradio.org http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list Cookinginthedark@acbradio.org http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list Cookinginthedark@acbradio.org http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark
