Homemade Egg Bread for Texas Toast
By
Pat Duran
@kitchenChatter
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This bread can be made into cinnamon swirl bread or Raisin bread or many other variations of Egg Bread.
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Ingredients
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6 to 7 call purpose flour
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2 pkgactive dry yeast
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2 cwhole milk
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1/4 cgranulated sugar
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1/4 cbutter
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2 tspsalt
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3 largeeggs
How to Make Homemade Egg Bread for Texas Toast
- In a large mixer bowl combine 3 cups of the flour and the yeast. In a saucepan heat milk, sugar,butter and salt until warm (115^)and butter is almost melted; stir constantly. Add to flour mixture; add eggs,one at a time. Beat at low speed of electric mixer for about 1/2 minute; scraping bowl.Beat 3 minutes at high speed. Stir in as much remaining flour as you can mix in with a spoon.
- Turn out onto a lightly floured surface. Knead in enough remaining flour to make a semi-stiff dough this is smooth and elastic about 6 minutes. Shape into a ball. Place in a lightly buttered bowl; turn once to butter surface. Cover; let rise in a warm place till double- away from draft- about 1 1/4 hours.
- Punch down; divide dough in half. Cover; let rest 10 minutes. Shape into 2 loaves. Place in 2 sprayed 9x5x3-inch loaf pans. Cover; let rise till nearly double about 35 minutes.