Bread

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       Title: BREAD
  Categories: Christmas, Breads, Ethnic, Holiday, Polish
       Yield: 6 servings
  
       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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