Free Recipe Mary s Portuguese Sweet Bread

Recipe Type: S Recipes
Recipe Preparation: bake
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Recipe Serves: 4

Ingredients for Mary s Portuguese Sweet Bread Recipe

2 pk Active dry yeast
1/2 c Warm potato water
3 tb Sugar
1 c Mashed potatoes
1/8 tb Ground ginger
1/2 c Milk
2 ts Salt
6 Eggs
1-3/4 c Sugar
1/2 c Butter
8 c Flour; (8 to 10)

Mary s Portuguese Sweet Bread Preparation

Dissolve yeast in potato water. Stir in the 3 tablespoons sugar, potatoes and ginger. Cover; let rise until doubled. Scald milk. add salt and cool to lukewarm. In small bowl of electric mixer, beat eggs; and gradually beat in the 1 3/4 cups sugar. Stir into yeast mixture. Add butter and mix well. Stir in 2 cups of the flour, then the milk. Add 2 more cups of the fl our; beat 5 minutes. Stir in enough remaining flour to make a stiff dough. Place on lightly floured board and knead in remaining flour until dough is smooth and elastic, about 8 to 10 minutes. Place in greased bowl. turning to grease top of dough. Co ver; let rise until dough is doubled. Grease four 9 x 5 x 3 loaf pans. Punch down dough and on a lightly floured board, divide into fourths. Shape each fourth into a loaf; place in prepared pans. Cover; let rise until doubled. Preheat electric oven to 325 degrees F. Bake for 45 minutes or until done. NOTES : Use bread pans, and not free form. Reduce baking time, bread tends to burn Recipe by: A Hundred Years of Island Cooking Posted to Bread-bakers Digest by LauraG <gaggini@gate.usaor.net> on Feb 28, 1998

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