Bread Recipes

Here are some great bread recipes. The first is my Grandma Long's Roll recipe. It is tasty yeast bread recipe - slightly sweet and buttery! It is worth the wait! The second is my Grandma Logsdon's banana bread recipe. The best banana bread ever! If you omit the banana's in this recipe and add in other fruit/veg, you can change it into any fruit bread or muffin you'd like! The other is my favorite biscuit recipe.

Grandma Long's rolls
Ingredients
1/2 + 1 tsp cup granulated sugar
1/2 warm water
2  (1/4 oz) packages or about 1/2 tsp total of dry active yeast
2 tsp salt
1/3 cup Crisco oil
1 cup water (not cold)
1 room temp egg, lightly beaten
4+ cups flour (2 cups All Purpose, and the rest Whole Wheat, if desired)
2 tbsp melted butter

Directions
Mix in a small bowl the warm water, sugar, and the yeast. Let this rest 5 minutes.

In a standing mixer (or large bowl), mix 1 cup water, sugar, salt, oil and butter. Add yeast mixture. Add 2 cups AP flour, mix in (on low) one cup at a time until the dough looks like pancake batter. On low, add in 1 cup wheat flour at a time until it forms a bread-looking dough and starts to pull away from the sides of the bowl.
Take the dough out of the bowl and form into to a ball. Set the ball in a large greased bowl. Cover. Let it rise for 1 hour - the dough should double in size. It is important that the room be warm for this, if your room is not warm for this place the bowl in front of a fire or heat the oven to 170F and then turn it off and place the bowl in the oven with the door open.
After the hour, knead dough for a couple of minutes to get the air out. Repeat these steps one time.
Then, you can roll the dough out and form rolls or form a loaf. The easiest way to form rolls is to roll it out  to 1 inch thick, then cut into squares. Pick up the squares and roll in your hand to make round. Place on a greased baking sheet, with plenty room in between.
Bake 350F 20 minutes for rolls or 40 minutes - 1hour for a loaf or until golden brown.
This recipe can also be made into cinnamon rolls. Roll out to 1/4 inch thick rectangle. Sprinkle on brown sugar and cinnamon. Roll the dough into a long roll. Cut into rolls. Bake in a greased dish at 350F for 20-30 minutes.

Grandma Logsdon's Banana Bread
2 1/2 All Purpose Flour
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
4 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup butter
1 cup sugar
1 1/2 cup brown sugar (this makes a very sweet bread, if you'd like yours a bit less sweet, cut b. sugar down to 3/4 cup)
1 cup mashed very ripe bananas
1/2 chopped walnuts, if desired

Mix wet ingredients together until incorporated. In a separate bowl, mix dry ingredients. Pour dry into wet, while mixing until incorporated. Pour into a greased loaf pan or muffin tins, and bake at 375F 1 hour for loaf or 20-30 minutes for muffins. The bread will be very dark on the out side, don't worry it's not burnt unless it's black! Let cool 10 minutes before slicing and enjoying. I like mine warm with a bit of butter!

Biscuits

2  cups flour

1 tsp sugar

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp salt

4 tbsp soft butter

4 tbsp shortening

3/4 cup butter milk (to make butter milk - add 1 tsp of white vinegar to 3/4 cup milk, let sit 2 minutes)

 Mix dry ingredients, butter and shortening in a large mixing bowl with a fork or pastry bender. Until it resembles peas. Add butter milk, mix until it forms a dough. For drop biscuits, use a scoop or a spoon and spoon out onto greased cookie sheet. For rolled biscuits, knead dough into ball. Roll out to 3/4 inch thick. Cut with biscuit cutter and place on greased cookie sheet. Bake at 350F for 15-20 minutes or until golden brown.