Nana's Perfect Bread
from: Denise Ferrin
5 cups Hot Water (110 degrees)
6-10 Cups Hard White Wheat Flour (freshly ground)
2/3 cup Gluten
2/3 cup Oil
2/3 Cup Honey
1/4-1/2 tsp. Vitamin C Crystals
3 Tbsp. Instant (Saf) Yeast
1-2 Tbsp. Salt
Put water into mixing bowl.
Add approximately 3 cups flour, gluten, oil, and honey. Mix thoroughly.
Add Vitamin C and salt, mix briefly.
Add yeast, mix briefly.
Set timer for 6 minutes and turn on bread mixer. Blend while adding additional flour, about 6 more cups, until it pulls away from the sides of the bowl. Turn mixer to high speed and continue mixing for the remaining minutes.
Turn dough onto oiled counter as it will be somewhat sticky. Grease hands to work with dough. Quickly and gently shape into loaves and place into 1 lb. loaf pans sprayed with cooking oil (Pam). Set in a warm spot, lightly cover with damp lightweight dishtowel. Let rise for 45 minutes to 1 hour.
Bake at 350 degrees for 35-40 minutes. Turn out of pans to cool.
Yield: 4 loaves
**Every time Nana makes this bread, she makes an extra for us. The kids love it!**
My mom is the best cook I know...
My mom loves to cook. It's what she does best. She loves searching for new recipes just to see what it tastes like {and to find the very best}. Growing up--mom was contantly baking cookies, canning food from our garden, baking bread and homemade salsa, and filling our home with sweet aromas {that I loved}. And now that I'm all grown up and out of the house, I still enjoy going home to see what she's made for us to eat! The purpose of this blog, is to record our family's favorite recipes...and to preserve them for our posterity. I want them to know that cooking is important to us. That it's getting lost in this busy-fast paced and convenient world. I want my family to build talents and abilities that only cooking can bring. So I hope this cookbook will help. Bon Appetit.