Description
I just took this out of the oven no more than 5 minutes ago, and the house smells wonderful. I am eating a thick slice slathered with butter right now, and i am loving it. I will definitely use this recipe again.
Ingredients
- Active Dry Yeast
- Warm Water
- Sugar
- Salt
- Shortening
- All-purpose Flour
- Butter
Instructions
- Dissolve yeast in 3 / 4 cup warm water
- Stir in 2 2 / 3 cups warm water, sugar, salt, shortening and 5 cups of the flour
- Beat until smooth
- Mix in enough remaining flour to make dough easy to handle
- Turn dough onto lightly floured board
- Knead until smooth and elastic, about 10 minutes
- Place in greased bowl
- Turn greased side up
- Cover
- Let rise in warm place until double, about 1 hour
- Punch dough down
- Divide in half
- Roll each half into rectangle, 18 x 9 inches
- Roll up, beginning at short side
- With side of hand, press each end to seal
- Fold ends under loaf
- Place seam side down in greased loaf pan, 9 x 5 x 3 inches
- Brush loaves lightly with butter
- Let rise until double, about 1 hour
- Heat oven to 425
- Place loaves on low rack so that top of pans are in center of oven
- Pans should not touch each other or sides of oven
- Bake 30 to 35 minutes or until deep golden brown and loaves sound hollow when tapped
- Remove from pans immediately
- Brush loaves with soft butter
- Cool on wire rack