Sweet bread

Sweet bread

Ingredients/Components

• sugar - 1 c
• milk - 1 c
• salt
• flour - 5 6
• warm water - 1 cake,
• lemon extract - 1/2 tsp
• powdered mace - 1/2 tsp
• shortening preferably butter - 1/2 c
• beaten eggs 5 if small - 4 item

How to make sweet bread:

Dissolve butter, sugar and salt in 1 cup of hot milk. Cool to lukewarm. Combine with other ingredients. Set this sponge in warm place, free of drafts, overnight. Cut down in morning and shape into 2 loaves. Place dough in greased loaf pans and let rise about 1 hour. Bake in moderate 350° oven for 50 to 60 minutes. Cool 5 minutes, then turn out on rack. Cover with towel while cooling.

Recipe categories: Breads, Yeast breads, Portuguese.