Amish recipe HELP
Hello! Locally we have a large Amish population and they have a weekly market. At the market I found the most delicious bread I have ever tasted. I am moving to Japan soon so I would never get to buy it again oh no! Luckily I sent the baker a letter and she sent me the recipe, however I am a little confused. I will list the recipe below:
2 cups warm skim milk
2 cups warm water
1 3/4 cups sugar
1 cup margarine
1 1/2 tbs. salt
4 eggs
2 tablespoons milk
Enough flour to make dough soft and stretchy (8-12 cups)
She says to let the dough rise until double, take a ball, squish it out, place in pan, let it rise again and bake at 350. The bread as I have eaten it resembles brioche in appearance with maybe 8 risen balls. My biggest question is, is this missing yeast? I believe it is, if so how much should I add? Thank you.
Yes, definitely you'll need some yeast.
How much? Umm... my rule of thumb is about 2 teaspoons instant yeast with 3 cups of flour to make a loaf of sandwich bread, so this looks about triple or quadruple that. So 2 Tablespoons maybe?
I've no idea how much in buckets but the usual here is 7g dried yeast per 500g flour, or ¼oz per pound of flour in old money.
Looks like a poor mans brioche recipe. Personally I'd use butter, but ...
-Gordon
could try 1.5% yeast of total flour which is pretty close to drogon...