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old fashioned bread recipe

Pillsbury's "Favorite" Bread

Course Bread
Cuisine American
Author Pillsbury
...happiest bread triumph you've ever had...all because of that dependable all-purpose flour, Pillsbury's Best!

Ingredients

  • 4 cups scalded milk
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 3 tablespoons salt
  • 6 tablespoons lard
  • 2 cakes compressed yeast
  • 4 cups lukewarm water
  • 6 quarts (6 lbs.) sifted Pillsbury's Best Enriched Flour

Directions

  • 1. Combine scalded milk, sugar, salt, and lard; stir till dissolved and lukewarm.
  • 2. Soften yeast in 1/2 cup lukewarm water. Add yeast and remaining water to cooled milk mixture.
  • 3. Sift flour once, then measure. Add 1/2 to yeast mixture; beat well. Add rest of flour; blend well.
  • 4. Knead on floured board about 10 minutes.
  • 5. Place in greased bowl, cover; set to rise in warm place (80 degrees F. to 85 degrees F.) about two hours (till impression of finger stays in dough).
  • 6. Punch gas from dough; cover; let rise again for about 1/2 hour.
  • 7. Put on floured board; flatten out. Cut and mold into 6 balls; let rest (closely covered) for 15 minutes. Shape into loaves.
  • 8. Place in greased 9 x 5 x 3-inch loaf pans; cover; keep in warm place till dough fills pan and center rises above top (about 2 hours). Bake in hot oven.