Recipe - Marys Portuguese Sweet Bread

2 pack Active dry yeast
One half cup Warm potato water
3 tablespoon Sugar
1 cup Mashed potatoes
1/8 tablespoon Ground ginger
One half cup Milk
2 teaspoon Salt
6 Eggs
1 Three fourths cup Sugar
One half cup Butter
8 cup Flour; (8 to 10)

Dissolve yeast in potato water. Stir in the 3 tablespoons sugar, potatoes
and ginger. Cover; let rise until doubled. Scald milk. add salt and cool to
lukewarm. In small bowl of electric mixer, beat eggs; and gradually beat in
the 1 Three fourths cups sugar. Stir into yeast mixture. Add butter and mix well.
Stir in 2 cups of the flour, then the milk. Add 2 more cups of the fl our;
beat 5 minutes. Stir in enough remaining flour to make a stiff dough. Place
on lightly floured board and knead in remaining flour until dough is smooth
and elastic, about 8 to 10 minutes. Place in greased bowl. turning to
grease top of dough. Co ver; let rise until dough is doubled. Grease four
9" x 5" x 3" loaf pans. Punch down dough and on a lightly floured board,
divide into fourths. Shape each fourth into a loaf; place in prepared pans.
Cover; let rise until doubled. Preheat electric oven to 325 degrees F. Bake
for 45 minutes or until done.

NOTES : Use bread pans, and not free form. Reduce baking time, bread tends
to burn

Recipe by: A Hundred Years of Island Cooking

Posted to Breadbakers Digest by "LauraG" gaggini@gate.usaor.net on Feb
28, 1998