Delicious Milk and Honey Bread - 2 Loaves

Name: Delicious Milk and Honey Bread - 2 Loaves
Prep time: 2 h
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 2 h 35 min
Yield: 2 loaves
Ingredients: 1 package active dry yeast; 2 1/2 cups warm milk (110º-115º); 1/3 cup honey; 1/4 cup butter or 1/4 cup margarine, melted; 2 teaspoons salt; 8 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

Submitted by Dine Dish

"Wow - this is delicious bread! I'm always trying new bread recipes and am glad I ran across this one in a recent magazine! It is delicious! Enjoy! This makes two loaves. Updated 2/10/05 - I just wanted to update that I halved this recipe and did the dough in the dough cycle and it turned out wonderfully. I did use a full package of yeast instead of halving that. I took the dough out of the ABM and let it rise one more time in the loaf pan. Then I baked it at 375 degrees for 35 minutes."

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Ready In:: 2hrs 35mins
Ingredients:: 6
Yields:: 2 loaves

ingredients

1 package active dry yeast
2 ¹⁄₂ cups warm milk (110º-115º)
¹⁄₃ cup honey
¹⁄₄ cup butter or 1/4 cup margarine, melted
2 teaspoons salt
8 ¹⁄₂ cups all-purpose flour

directions

In a large mixing bowl, dissolve yeast in warm milk.
Add honey, butter, salt& 5 cups flour; beat until smooth.
Add enough remaining flour to form a soft dough.
Turn onto a floured board; knead until smooth& elastic, about 6-8 minutes.
Place in a greased bowl, turning once to grease top.
Cover& let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 1 hour.
Punch dough down& shape into two loaves.
Place in greased 9x5x3" loaf pans.
Cover& let rise until doubled, about 30 minute Bake at 375º for 30-35 minutes or until golden brown.
Cover with foil if necessary to prevent overbrowning.
Remove from pans& cool on wire racks.

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Reviews

I followed the instructions very closely, but the bread did not rise. Somebody please explain the mystery of yeast to me! Anyway, the bread is still quite tasty, but a little doughy and requires extra toasting. I liked my experience with the simple French bread much better.

calisto
Great taste, and beautiful. Yes, this does work in the bread machine! I used half the ingredients (4 cups of flour), warming the milk and butter on the stovetop first (just until the butter melted) before putting all in the breadmachine (in the order recommended by the manufacturer). My only deviation was the amount of yeast used. I don't know what the weight of a "standard" package of yeast is in the US, but my packet was 7 grams, an amount recommended for 500 g of flour (the 4 cups that I used was closer to 600 g, I think)--so I used an entire 7g packet. My bread was perfect in consistency. I baked it on the standard white-bread cycle. Thanks for posting!

FlemishMinx
Very light, very tasty. It was sweet but not cloyingly so. It was so popular both loaves were gone the same day I baked them! I will definitely be making this again.

AM_Guynes
My family loves this. My kids were amazed when I first made it. They didnt realize you could make bread at home. Hehehe. I am now amazing.

ChefLes
Well, this is my third attempt at making bread and this is my first real SUCCESS! I am so happy, this bread did everything I hoped it would and more. It was easy, came together perfectly and made a wonderfully easy dough to work with. And after it baked up...oh my, it was beautiful and it tasted incredible! I only used 7 cups of flour in the end and it seemed to be plenty. I baked it for the 35 minutes, but it seemed slightly doughy, so I will cook it longer next time. I brushed butter over the top in the last 10 minutes and covered with a sheet of foil. When it was done I brushed more butter on top. It was so good hot with MORE BUTTER! I made one large loaf and one small one. Today for lunch we cut it and had venison sandwiches, so good. Thank you, this is a definate keeper. I want to make rolls out of it too! Yeah, so exciting!

HeidiSue

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Dine Dish

Shawnee, 55

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