Miracle Bread

Oh my, this is delicious! I found this recipe on the blog homejoys. She always has fantastic looking bread recipes and I decided I must try this one! The dough was so easy to work with and rose beautifully! The egg wash on the top gave it a great color and the best part was that it tasted as good as it looked!-Sarah

1/2 cup warm water

2 tablespoons yeast

2 tablespoons sugar or honey

• Mix together and let yeast dissolve for a few minutes.

2 cups warm water

2 tablespoons melted butter or oil

2 teaspoons salt

• Add to yeast water mixture.

6-7 cups flour

1 egg

2 T. milk

sesame seeds or poppy seeds

• Stir in as much of the 6 cups of flour as you can. Knead in remaining flour by hand or with a dough hook on mixer. Using additional flour as needed.
• Roll dough into ball and place in a greased bowl, turning over to grease top of ball.
• Let rise, at room temperature, 30-60 minutes, until doubled in size.
• Divide dough in half, using a rolling pin ,roll dough out to a large oval. Roll up lengthwise and place on greased cookie sheet.
• With a sharp knife make diagonal slits in top of bread. Let rise about 1 hour, until doubled in size.
• In a small bowl beat together the egg and milk. Brush over loaves and sprinkle with seeds.
• Bake in a 425 degree oven for 10-15 minutes. (the original recipe calls for a 15-20 minute baking time but that was too much for me, depends on how fat your loaves are too)