Bread: Avanti's Sweet Italian Bread
Source of Recipe
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List of Ingredients
2 tablespoons yeast -- or2 small envelopes
3 cups very warm water
3 tablespoons oil
3 eggs
1 teaspoon salt
1 1/4 cups sugar
10 cups white flour -- up to 11
Recipe
1. Dissolve the yeast in the very warm water. Add oil, eggs, salt
and sugar. Let foam for a few minutes.
2. Add enough flour to make dough smooth. Place in a LARGE greased
bowl (I reuse the mixing bowl) and turn the dough to coat it.
3. Cover, let rise for 1 1/2 hours while you do something else!
4. Punch down the dough. Turn over, let rise another 30 minutes.
5. Cut dough into 5 or 6 portions (more if you want a smaller loaf
size). Let rise 10 minutes.
6. Flatten dough, pressing out all of the air (yes that's right,
flatten it!). Form into loaves and place on a greased floured baking
sheet (or in greased floured loaf pans).
7. Cover, let rise 1 more hour.
8. Bake at 350 degrees for 25-30 minutes. Enjoy! (You can let loaves
cool and wrap them, put in ziploc bags and freeze to thaw, leave at
room temperature for an hour or wrap in foil and stick in a 300 degree
oven for 1/2 hour or so if serving hot)
This wonderful recipe is very similar to the gondola bread at a local
Italian restaurant named Avanti's. I make double batches of this
bread (you need a lot of BIG bowls!) and bake 12 loaves at a time,
some as sandwich bread, some long like French or Italian bread, some
small for hoagies. It is wonderful and freezes superbly! There are
four rising times to this bread. it seems like a lot, but it is
perfect for oamc day and the results wills astound you (They loaves
get HUGE in the oven, so leave lots of room for them to "grow".) I
always have homemade bread on hand, and since we entertain alot,
people are amazed when I pull out a few of these homemade loaves and
serve them with dinner. They love it, too!
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