Recipe - Easter Bread No 2 (Masa Savada)

1 cup Scalded milk
2 Yeast cakes
One fourth cup Warm water
3 Eggs
1 cup Sugar
One half cup Butter
5 cup Bread flour
1 teaspoon Salt

Dissolve yeast in warm water. Cool milk and beat in the yeast mixture and
the eggs. Add the sugar and the butter. Stir in the flour.and the salt and
knead the dough about 20 minutes. Place dough in a buttered bowl, cover
then let rise until double in size. Punch down and make into round loaves.
Place into buttered pie plates. Cover and let rise and let rise until
double in size. Brush top with milk and make a cross on top with a knife.
Bake at 350 degrees for 40 50 minutes

Recipe by: PortugueseAmerican Cookbook by E.D. Asselin

Posted to MCRecipe Digest by "tautog78@yahoo.com" tautog78@yahoo.com on
Feb 27, 1998