Egg bread is easy to make, it is enriched with eggs and butter. Perfect for sandwiches or French toast.
Egg Bread
I think I spent most of the day in my kitchen which is something I love to do, well all except for the clean up and no one can mess up a kitchen like me. LOL…. one day I will show you. My mom always said I had to dirty every dish in the kitchen or I wasn’t done cooking. Today I believe that is true. I have ran my dishwasher twice and still washed dishes in the sink. Oh yeah and right now there is still a sink full of dishes out there.
I started out making some pumpkin butter in the crockpot which is still not done. For the first 4 hours I thought it was on Low but it was actually on warm which doesn’t cook it at all. I really need to keep reading glasses in the kitchen. It is one of the joys of getting old, not being able to read what you once could and still thinking you can. From there I went to a Roasted Pumpkin Cheesecake Flan which is in the refrigerator. Then I whipped up a batch of my moms egg bread which I modified slightly as her recipe called for carnation milk and I didn’t want to use it so I used milk instead. Her recipe will make 2 loaves but I decided to make a version of a recipe I saw in the Food Network’s magazine for a Herbed Monkey Bread with half of the dough. Then there was still dinner to make! A simple braised kielbasa, cabbage and potato was ready in less than an hour.
Now I am ready for a good night of TV, I sure hope something good is on.
- 1 1/2 packages yeast
- 1/2 cup warm water
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1/2 cups butter - melted
- 1 1/2 cups milk
- 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
- 5 – 6 cups flour
- Topping
- 2 tablespoons Butter
- Sesame Seeds
- Dissolve yeast in 1/2 cup warm water.
- Beat eggs in a bowl and add the sugar and beat well. Add melted butter, milk and salt. Mix well and add yeast/water mixture.
- Stir in 1 cup flour and beat until smooth. Add remaining flour to make a soft dough. Knead until smooth. Cover and let rise until doubled.
- Divide dough in half. Shape into loaves. Put into greased bread pans. Let rise until doubled. Brush with melted butter and sprinkle sesame seeds on top.
- Bake for about 35 minutes until golden brown and sounds hollow when tapped.
- Mom's Method:
- Grease a cookie sheet. Cut dough in half. Cut the half in 3 pieces. Pull or roll into strips that are 1 inch thick. Braid each end from the middle. Place on cookie sheet and let rise until doubled. Brush with egg and sprinkle the sesame seeds on top.
- Mom
Your directions reference adding hot water. However, your ingredients has no mention or amount.
In the recipe it says a 1/2 cup and it goes in with the milk.
The 1/2 cup to dissolve the yeast, yes? And it’s warm not hot.
I got stuck in the same thing. It’s just the yeast water, I hope.
Yes, I fixed the recipe. It was just the yeast water. Yes, warm not hot or you will kill the yeast.