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Mama Angela Vieras Sweetbread Portuguese Recipe
Ingredients
- 21 c. flour
- 1/4 lb. baker’s yeast or 6 pkg. dry yeast
- 4 c. sugar
- 2 c. milk
- 1 1/2 c. warm water
- 1/2 lb. butter
- 12 eggs
- 1 tbsp. salt
Method
- Be sure all ingredients are at room temperature
- In a bowl mix yeast with warm water, add a pinch of sugar
- Let stand, it should bubble in 15 to 20 minutes
- Sift flour and sugar into large bread pan, I let it sit in warm (not hot) oven while I do the other steps
- (This is to take the chill off
- ) 3
- Scald milk until tiny bubbles show on side of saucepan or a film forms
- Let cool
- Add butter
- Beat eggs in a mixer bowl
- When milk has cooled add milk to egg
- Add yeast
- Mix
- Make a well in flour and sugar mixture, to this add liquid mixture mixing with your hands
- Knead until dough has a life of its own
- Cover pan, let rise in warm place until double, 1 1/2 hours or so
- Make into loaves, placing in greased pans
- Let rise again another 1 1/2 hours or so
- When raised bake in 325 degree oven until done, depending on size of loaves, 35-45 minutes
- Watch, as browns fast
- If using bread hook mixer, use 1/3 of recipe
- Time of rising depends on warmth of day, I sometimes use 7 packages of dry yeast if it’s a very cold day
- Recipe does not work well with quick rise yeast

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