Nancy’s Homemade Bread.
You can have Nancy’s Homemade Bread using 6 ingredients and 20 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Nancy’s Homemade Bread
- It’s 3/4 cups of Shortening.
- You need 2 tbsp of Dry Yeast (2 packets).
- You need 32 oz of Water (100-110*).
- It’s 1 tbsp of Salt.
- You need 1 cup of Sugar.
- It’s 6-8 cups of All Purpose Flour.
Nancy’s Homemade Bread instructions
- Melt shortening and set it aside to cool.
- Thoroughly mix yeast and water into a large bowl. All yeast must be dissolved..
- Stir in salt, sugar, and cooled shortening until thoroughly dissolved (about 2 minutes).
- Stir in 3 cups of flour.
- Stir in an additional 2 cups of flour.
- As need, or if needed, stir in another cup of flour to desired consistency. The mixer should be slightly sticky, but not impossibly to knead..
- Knead the dough for 8 minutes..
- Transfer the dough to a different dish while you wash and dry the bowl..
- Grease the clean/dry bowl..
- Return the dough to the bowl.
- Cover the dough and allow it to rise on the stove-top over a warm oven for 45 minutes to 1 hour. (do not turn the stove-top on).
- Knead dough 1 minute, flip, and knead 1 more minute.
- Cover and allow dough to rise for an additional 45 minutes to one hour.
- Grease 5 bread pans.
- Divide dough into 5 equal pieces and place into greased bread pans.
- Cover dough and allow it to rise for 45 minutes. It should be about 1 inch above the top of the pan..
- Bake at 375* for 25 minutes.
- Once baked brush melted butter onto all sides of the bread..
- Allow bread to cool before putting the loaves into bread bags..
- Enjoy. Repeat..