Lesson 2- Bread

Learn to make a traditional style of white bread.

• 6 to 7 cups all-purpose or un-bleached flour
  
• 3 tablespoons sugar
  
• 1 tablespoon salt
  
• 2 tablespoons shortening
  
• 2 packages regular or quick-acting active dry yeast
  
• 2 1/4 cups very warm water

DIRECTIONS

Mix 3 1/2 cups of the flour, the sugar, salt, shortening, and yeast in a 4-quart bowl; add warm water. Beat on low spead, scraping bowl fequently, one minute. Beat on medium speed scraping bowl frequently, one minute. Stir in enough remaining flour, one cup at a time, to make dough easy to handle.

Turn dough onto lightly floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic, about ten minutes. Place in greased 2 1/2-quart bowl; turn grease side up. Cover and let rise in warm place until double, 40 to 60 minutes. (Dough is ready if indentation remains when touched.)

Punch down dough; divide in to halves. Let rest 5 minutes. Shape in to two loaves, brush loaves lightly with margarine or butter if desired. Let rise until double, 35 to 50 minutes.

Heat oven to 425*. Place loaves on low rack. Bake until deep golden brown and loaves sound hollow when tapped, 25-30 minutes. Remove from pand. Brush loaves with brush loaves lightly with margarine or butter if desired.

Sandcastle Competition

We won the Sandcastle Competition at South Padre Island! The Prize was $100 dollars! This event gave us and idea, why does Splats! have to only teach cooking? So now we're Splats! For Kids, same website more fun! Now instead of teaching you kids a different recipe each week we're gonna teach a recipe one week and a craft or activity another. Eventually we want to make our shows longer so we can show both, but for now its one thing a week.

Cheers

P.S. This is our sandcastle