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Recipe Gramma Good's Fennel Bread (Bread)
Home Cooking Recipes
Required Ingredients:
- 2 (.25 ounce) packages instant yeast
- 1 cup lukewarm water
- 1 quart warm water
- 1 tablespoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- 2 tablespoons white sugar
- 1/2 cup fennel seed
- 1/3 cup unsulfured molasses
- 1 tablespoon melted butter
- 2 cups rye flour
- 1 1/2 cups golden raisins
- 9 cups bread flour
Preparing/Cooking:
- In a small bowl, dissolve the yeast in 1 cup of lukewarm water.
- Let stand until foamy, about 10 minutes.
- In a large bowl, stir together the quart of warm water, salt, ginger, sugar, fennel, molasses, and melted butter.
- Mix in the yeast slurry and rye flour, breaking up any lumps of flour with a whisk.
- Stir in raisins.
- Work in the bread flour 1/2 cup at a time, until the dough becomes stiff.
- Then, turn it out onto a floured surface and knead in as much of the remaining flour as necessary to make a stiff but workable dough.
- Knead for an additional 10 minutes to develop the gluten.
- Place dough into a greased bowl, and turn to coat.
- Cover and let rise until double, about 1 hour.
- Punch down the dough and let it rise again until double.
- Remove dough from bowl, and divide into 4 equal pieces.
- press out air bubbles, and roll dough into loaves.
- Place the loaves into four 8x4 inch well greased loaf pans.
- Let rise in a warm place until doubled in size.
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Bake the loaves for 40 to 45 minutes, or until the tops are nicely browned, and the loaves sound hollow when tapped on the bottom.
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