Easter Bread

Ingredients

• 2 cups scalded milk
• 3/4 cup melted butter or butter crisco
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 tsps. salt
• 1 tsp. vanilla (optional)
• 3 tsps. cinnamon
• 2 pkgs. yeast
• 8 cups flour
• 1-2 cups golden raisins (If desire, soak the raisins in water to soften then drain.)

Instructions

1. 1

   Scald milk & add melted butter or butter crisco. (You can use just the butter crisco.)

2. 2

   Stir in sugar, salt & vanilla or cinnamon. (A bakery where I once worked, we only used cinnamon.)

3. 3

   Dissolve yeast in 1/2 cup lukewarm water.

4. 4

   Add yeast to milk mixture.

5. 5

   Stir in beaten eggs.

6. 6

   Add 4 cups flour.

7. 7

   Cover & let rise in warm place for 1 hour or until doubled in bulk.

8. 8

   Mixture will be foamy.

9. 9

   Knead in rest of flour to make workable dough.

10. 10

    Knead in golden raisins.

11. 11

    Continue to knead until dough is smooth & elastic.

12. 12

    Divide dough into 3 portions.

13. 13

    Place in greased bread pans.

14. 14

    Cover & let rise until double in bulk about 1 hour.

15. 15

    Bake in 350 degree oven for about 30 to 40 minutes or until loaves sound hollow.

16. 16

    Cool on wire rack.