not this cute anymore!
Ingredients:
2 packages of active dry yeast-
2 1/4 cups warm water
1 Tablespoon sugar
1/4 cup shortening
2 eggs
1/2 cup sugar
2 tsp salt
3 cups whole wheat flour*
3 1/2- 4 cups all purpose flour*
*I rarely use this recipe with BOTH white and wheat flour mixed. I like my bread 100% whole wheat and my husband is unhealthy and likes it totally white. So I usually do two batches.... you can do whatever you like. If you have bread flour, omit the salt.
Directions:
Combine first three ingredients in a bowl and let sit for 5-10 minutes. You can buy the yeast in little packets in the baking isle at any store. If you don't have it in small packets (like me... I use a big container), 1 package = 2 1/4 teaspoons of yeast. The warm water needs to be 110 degrees... to me that means, leave the warm water running for a while and add it before it gets super hot. After you leave the yeast soaking for a few minutes, it will start bubbling... that means it's active and ready to mix with the other ingredients....
If you have a mixer-- bosche or kitchen aid-- you're lucky. (Make sure to use your bread attachment it's long and skinny :) Add the shortening, eggs, sugar, salt and 3 or so cups of flour to the yeast mixture and start stirring. Add a cup of flour at a time until the dough starts coming off the side of the bowl. When it's no longer sticky, it has enough flour.
Spread a little flour on a clean counter and knead the dough for a little while.. it should be smooth and elasticy. If you have a mixer, you don't need to knead it by hand. If you don't have a mixer, and don't know how to knead... you pretty much just fold the dough and smash it until it seems smooth. Keep folding towards you and smash it away. This is not easy explaining on a blog, but oh well...
After the kneading is done, grease a large bowl with a little shortening and place the dough in the bowl and turn it so it's all coated with shortening. When it rises, this will keep the dough soft. Leave the dough in the bowl in a warm place for about an hour (until it doubles in size) It usually helps to put a towel over the bowl.
After the dough has risen for an hour, punch it down.. and knead it again. Whether or not you have a machine, you should knead by hand-- for about a minute or so. Then divide it into about six sections.. (depending on how big you want your bread bowls to be.. they will end up double the size of the dough.) Roll the pieces into circles and place on a greased pan or cookie sheet and leave them to rise for an hour again. These can be loaves of bread or small rolls.. shape them into whatever you want.
After the second time rising, they are ready to bake. Bake them at 375 Degrees for 11-15 minutes (until they are a golden brown on top.) When you take them out of the oven, brush them with a little melted butter- and viola.
**If you don't want to bake them all at once, you can freeze the dough before they rise a second time. They freeze well. When I freeze the dough, I take it out about 3 hours before dinner and let it thaw/rise until it's time to bake. This recipe makes 4 dozen small rolls... or 6 bread bowls.
NOW I know it seems complicated and messy, but it's really not hard. This entire post makes it seem a lot more difficult than it really is. Just try it! You can also use this recipe for Cinnamon rolls.. those directions will be posted another time.
I have got to put my kids in the bath-- and down for bed! Let me know if you have any questions!
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7 comments:
Thanks Janet, I totally will make these, I 'll bet you can save the inside of the bread bowls for breadcrumbs for lots of recipes, clever!
HOORAY! I am SO glad you posted this recipe! I totally remember having these up in Spokane and they were SOOOOO YUMMY!!! Thank you!
OK Janet, seriously...You are inspiring. You must have more hours in your days than I do (at least that's what I keep telling myself so that the comparison doesn't make me feel horrible about myself). I don't know how you do it. 3 boys and all that comes with being their mother (who know how much laundy, house cleaning, reading, feeding, bathing, loving, etc...) Then you have to home school them, bake bread, look amazing, go swimming, read twilight, do nursery...wow-I'm out of breath. My calculations just show that you must be a superwoman. Thanks so much for all you are doing and sharing!
Janet- I love the heading picture. So cute!
Anyway, I am sorry to hear that you had a miscarriage. I know how you feel...I have had 5. It is such a hard thing to go through. Since going to a support group, I have learned that there are people who think that you will just get over it and have another baby. they don't understand that another baby can't take the place of the one you lost. You need time to grieve all losses, so i am hoping you take time for that. There is a book called Gone Too Soon by Sherri Devashrayee Wittwer. It is all about the loss of infants and unborn children. I read this book with my first 3 miscarriages. Now, I have read so many others, but this one is good because she is LDS.
Thank you for sharing with me. Your awesome and your boys are adorable. Love ya!
Tried to leave a comment yesterday, and it magically went somewhere....scary thought. Anyway, what I was going to say is "Thank you, wonderful daugher-in-law for making the instructions very clear and simple and for the encouragement!" I know you did that just for me!! Love ya!
Thanks for the delicious rolls yesterday. I will use this recipie, as soon as I have a bit of time. Also I really liked that movie, very sweet. You should totaly read "these is my words" It is my favorite!! PS I didn't know you had a miscarraige. Not like it should be common knowlegd, but you didn't say anything the other day when you were asking me about mine. Sorry if I'm prying, it's just nice to know when some one actually does know how you feel, you know?
I just tried this recipe for my first ever bread making experience and it turned out pretty well, if I do say so myself! That's saying something for me, just ask my husband. I did use butter instead of shortening and less sugar with some honey instead. I even did the whole bread bowl with soup thing. Delicious! Thanks for the recipe and demonstration last week!
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