Main Ingredients:

See below ingredients and instructions of the recipe

Cooking Preparation of the Recipe:

5 lb Flour
1/4 lb Butter
1 qt Milk
1 To 1.1/2 cups sugar
1 tb Salt
2 Yeast cakes or 1/4 pound
-yeast
1/2 c Water or milk
2 ts Vanilla extract
5 lg Eggs

Mix yeast, water and 1 Tablespoon sugar. Let rise.

Put 1 quart of milk in a pot. Add 1/2 cup sugar and 1/2 pound butter.
Scald; don't boil. Take off stove to cool to lukewarm.

Beat eggs; add remaining butter and sugar. Mix well.

Put flour in pan. Mix well. Add vanilla extract, egg mixture, milk
mixture, yeast and salt.

Knead until it falls off your hands. The better it is mixed the
better the bread will be.

Let stand until it doubles in size. Punch down. Let rise again. Put
in five or six pans and let rise again.

Bake at 375 degrees for 1/2 an hour. Reduce heat to 350 degrees and
bake about 1/2 hour longer.

From The Cookie Lady's Files

Posted by COOKIE.LADY [Cookie] on Mar 16, 1993

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