BellesAZ and Grandma A's Ranch Bread
BellesAZ and your posted recipe of your grandmothers recipe for her Ranch Bread, do you remember the thread from over a year ago where you were kind enough to put the recipe up for all of us to enjoy?
I hate to tell you how long ago that was, Sept. 20 of 2010! And I'm just getting to it. So many recipes to make, sourdough starter making a person feel guilty when not using it, etc. Well, I did make this a week ago and to anyone interested, it is delicious. It makes wonderful toast, sandwiches and grilled cheese. It also makes 3 loaves. It is easy to make, true to the instructions and is just great. It will be a keeper for me. The other one is Amish Bread from AllRecipe website.
Both use cups as measurements, suits me very well as I was taught correctly in Jr. High how to measure flour. I can still hear Mrs. Forrest.......
Jean P. (VA)
thankyou for posting your note about that recipe- it reminded me that I wanted to make it as well = )
Margie
Grandma A's Ranch Bread
My Grandmother used to bake 20 loaves of this bread at a time during ranching season. She fed 9 kids, 6 ranch hands - you can imagine they would eat all of this in one day!
Grandma A's Ranch Hand Bread
Yield: 3 Loaves
INGREDIENTS:
4 cups or 1 lb 4 ounces of All Purpose Flour
1.5 tablespoons instant yeast (see directions if using active dry yeast)
3 tablespoons sugar
4 tablespoons melted butter
4 cups milk, heated to lukewarm
5-6 Cups or 1 lb 14 (approx) Bread Flour
1.5 tablespoons salt
DIRECTIONS:
Add AP flour, instant yeast, sugar and salt to a large mixing bowl or to the bowl of your stand mixer. Mix together well. (If using active yeast, don't add salt just yet!). Using the paddle attachment of your mixer, add the milk and melted butter gradually and mix together until dough forms a smooth batter. Some lumps are OK.
Next, attach the dough hook and begin adding your bread flour one cup on Speed 2 until each cup is well incorporated. Reserve one cup of the flour and only add it if your dough continues to act too sticky. If it is too sticky, add remaining flour a few TBS at a time until the dough barely pulls away from the sides of the bowl. It should still act sticky on the bottom of your mixer.
Turn your mixer off and let your dough rest for about 15-20 minutes. I just leave the dough hook in the dough and cover it with a tea towel.
IF USING ACTIVE DRY YEAST = Add your salt and mix on speed 2 for several minutes to fully incorporate the salt. This step doesn't hurt your dough if you've used instant yeast too!
Remove to a well oiled bowl and let rise for about 45 minutes to an hour. Watch carefully as it can rise pretty fast!
Remove dough to a floured surface and gently divide into three equal parts. Form each part into a ball and let rest for 10 minutes. Shape each piece carefully into a loaf, sprinkle with some flour and let rise in a bread pan for about one hour. Bake 375 degrees for about 35-40 minutes. This bread gets good oven spring.
This dough is very versatile and can easily be used to make cinnamon rolls or dinner rolls.
IGNORE MY PAINTERS TAPE.. I was getting ready to paint my kitchen. LOL
Thanks so much for posting this recipe, I couldn't figure out how to get all of that in place without typing it word by word. Can I ask how it was done? Now I'm showing my lack of computer skills. Jean P. (VA)
I found the original posting by doing a search for Grandma A's Ranch Bread- the recipe was quite a way down in the original post. Once I found the recipe I went to the bottom of the recipe, placed my cursor under the picture at the bottom of the recipe and holding the mouse button down, moved the cursor up to the top of the recipe then I let the mouse button go, right clicked on the selected text (that showed up in blue on my computer) and selected Copy from the drop down box, then I right clicked in my post on this thread and selected Paste, the computer then pasted the copied text and picture into my post on this thread. Hope this helps.
Linda
Linda,
Thanks so much for that easy to read direction on how to get the text into this thread. I had no idea you could copy and paste and have these results. Jean P. (VA)