Baking · Newfoundland
White Bread
Twelve cups of flour, three loaves, with her molasses and spice variations at the bottom.
Total
3 hr 30 min
Oven
350°F / 175°C
Ingredients
- 1 pkg yeast
- 2 cups warm water
- 1 tsp sugar
- 12 cups flour
- 1 ½ tbsp salt
- ¼ cup sugar
- ¼ pkg shortening
- 3 cups water
Method
- Dissolve the yeast and 1 tsp sugar in 2 cups warm water and let it stand until it foams.
- Put the flour, salt and 1/4 cup sugar in a large bowl and work in the shortening.
- Add the yeast mixture and 3 cups water and work into a dough.
- Knead until smooth, cover, and let rise until doubled.
- Punch down, shape into loaves in greased pans, and let rise again.
- Bake 350 for 35 or 40 minutes.
Notes
Her page gives the ingredients and the bake time. The mixing, rising and shaping steps are the standard ones, written out here.
For molasses bread, use 1 cup molasses, 1 1/2 cups sugar, 1 pkg raisins and 1 1/2 pkg yeast.
For spice bread, 1 to 1 1/2 pkg yeast, 3/4 cup sugar, 4 tsp cinnamon and 4 tsp allspice. Beside that she wrote, maybe 6 tsp each.
Source: Nan's recipe book
wolfeats.ca/recipes/white-bread/