Thanksgiving Lard Bread is a wonderful bread to have on standby over the holidays. If your house is anything like mine over Thanksgiving and Christmas, it’s like a revolving door or guests and people I need to feed. Having a few loaves of this bread in the house ensures that no-one ever goes hungry.
It’s real easy to make too. Start by mixing yeast with water and adding milk, sugar, lard, and salt. Gradually add bread flour until you have a dough. Knead the dough and leave to rise before knocking the air out of it. Place the dough in two pans and leave to rise again before baking. There you have it. Simple bread, simply delicious.
To make my version of Thanksgiving Lard Bread, you will need the following ingredients:
In a large bowl, mix the yeast and water together.
Stir in the milk, sugar, lard, and salt.
Mix in 4 cups of the bread flour and mix. Gradually add enough remaining flour to make a dough that follows the spoon around the bowl.
Place the dough on a lightly floured surface. Knead for 8 minutes, adding extra flour as required until the dough is smooth and soft.
Place dough in a large lightly greased bowl. Turn the dough over in the bowl so that the top is also greased. Cover and leave to rise in a warm, draft-free place for about 1 hour, until the dough doubles in size.
Preheat the oven to 350 ºF and grease and line two 8x4 inch baking pans.
Place the dough on a lightly-floured board again and knead for about 8 minutes or until there are no more bubbles in the bread.
Divide the dough into the two bread pans. Cover and leave to rise for 45 minutes in a warm, draft free place.
Brush loaves with egg white to give the loaves a shiny finish when baked and slice into the tops with sharp knife or razor. Bake for 45 minutes or until the bread is golden brown.
Remove the loaves from the pans and allow them to cool on a wire rack.
Cut into slices and serve with your Thanksgiving leftovers.
This Thanksgiving Lard Bread is an easy bread which is great to have on standby over the holidays. Try it soon and don’t forget to tag #cookmerecipes in your baking posts!
This was the very first bread i've ever made adn i can say honestly that i love the ease of the recipe and how it turned out!
Not my personal favorite but thats because its kinda bland.
Careful with the yeast if you dont what youre doing with it you should watch a youtube video cause you do need to add a mix of sugar into the water with yeast etc..
Takes a really long time to make this but it does take good just wish I didnt have to wait 3 hours lol.
Crumbly but tasty just wish it didnt fall apart so quickly.
Obsessed with all the bread recipes, been trying different ones every week. Today I tried this and the vegan banana bread.
Watching this bread rise was so satisfying and made me even more hungry than i was lol.
In love with this bread going to try and make cheesy garlic bread out of this bread cause the texture is so good.
The smell is heavenly!! love watching this bread bake and smelling the freshness.
