Great Bread recipe

3 cups warm water
1 & 1/2 tablespoons yeast
1/4 cup sugar or honey
6-8 cups flour ( i do about 4 cups wheat and 4 cups white, find a mix that works for your family)
1 teaspoon salt
1/8 cup oil



Put water in your Kitchen-aide mixer
sprinkle yeast over top
then sugar over top
then salt & oil over that
turn on mixer and start adding the flour...I usually add 6 cups of flour and then continue to add the flour until the dough becomes not as sticky. The dough is ready when it forms a ball without sagging and quickly springs back when poked.
- Can also kneed it by hand if you don't have a mixer


Let raise in a bowl bigger then your dough, cover with some saran wrap sprayed with some oil to help the dough not stick. It usually takes 35-55 mins to raise, it needs to double in size. and then punch down , reform and place in bread pans and let raise again. then Bake. 

Bake at 350 for 30 minutes
after cooked remove from oven and let cool 5 mins then remove from pans and place on a cooling rack.
and enjoy! 

Cinnamon-Raisin Bread
1/2 cup raisins
filling:
1/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup cinnamon
1 egg beaten with 2 table spoons water
 
 I started doing one regular bread loaf and one cinnamon raisin loaf, it only takes a few extra steps
after the dough has raised the first time, divide the dough in half. use the one dough half for regular bread loaf...so just follow the above recipe steps. for the other half: 
put ur extra dough back into the mixer and kneed in the raisins. take out and place in a bowl and let dough raise. after it raise. roll out on the counter .
(combine cinnamon and sugar into a bowl & beat the egg water in a second bowl.)
brush the entire surface of the dough with egg wash. then  sprinkle with cinniamon sugar mixture. then roll up the dough to form a loaf and place in bread pan.
Let the dough raise
then bake
 350 for 30 mins


You can freeze loaves for up to 3 months.


if you wanted to do 2 loaves of the cinnamon raisin the filling measurements would be:
1/2 sugar
1 1/2 cinnamon
1 large egg with 2 teaspoons water



We love this bread, It is so great that I stopped buying bread.
You can freeze half the dough, It makes 2 loafs. You can also use the dough for pizza. :)



Tara