Hot milk bread

Do you remember hearing about your grandmother making bread on Mondays? then like doing laundry on Tuesday, etc? How did she make enough bread to get through the whole week? well I've got it and i have done it.

While i was recovering from Hodgkin's , I was home and felt well enough to putz around the house but not well enough to work outside the home. so i went in search of my grandmothers hot milk bread recipe. I found it and i made home made bread for the entire week on Mondays. i looked forward to my husband being off to work and my daughter being gone to school and just having the free time to enjoy making the bread.

now don't get me wrong i have a bread machine and i do use it, but i liked doing things the old fashioned way. i have always felt that those traits were something that needed to be kept alive and practiced. OK ill admit it i got started doing all that during the Y2K scare, I learned how to make bread how to can how to garden all because of Y2K LOL!

anyhow i just realised after all that time of doing this weekly i never posted this on my blog! {for shame!}

So here it is....

Hot milk Bread

4 tab oil

4 tea salt

4 tab sugar

2 C hot milk

1 c hot water

2 tab yeast

½ cup 100° water (warm)

12 C flour

Mix oil, salt, sugar, hot milk, and hot water together and let cool to 100°

Add Yeast to ½ cup of warm water for 5 minutes to dissolve. Add yeast to the cooled mixture, add 6 cups of flour mix well. Slowly add more flour until not sticky. Might be 6 more cups might be less might be more depending on humidity of the day. Knead until smooth.

Oil dough and rise in non drafty area for 1 hour. Punch down and form into loaves. Let rise.

Preheat oven to 425° reduce to 350° when bread goes into oven.

FYI, if you want to make this into diffrent types of bread IE: garlic bread for one loaf, before you loaf it up after teh punch down, cut out the bread y9ou want the garlic in, and add your garlic powder to it. and maybe even some dried oregano. I also normally make one loaf into cinnamon swirl bread.

Enjoy your bread making!