Mama Angela Vieras Sweetbread Portuguese Recipe

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

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

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