Peasant Bread

On Friday we had our "Move Over Martha" dinner group. We chose to do Italian theme. I was horrible at taking pictures...but one thing that didn't lack was the food. Seriously. Awesome. I had to make the Pasta al Forno, helped with the soda bar,  and made the bread. My friend, Cassy gave me this recipe for the bread, because I didn't have one. Let me tell you, it was so darn good. It came together in less than an hour from start to finish. But the end result was amazing. I think I ate a whole loaf by myself. The thing about this bread though, is it tastes best fresh. So don't save it for a few days. Watch for more recipes, hopefully this week!

Ingredients:

1 package (2 1/4 teaspoons) yeast
1 tablespoon sugar
2 cups warm water
4 cups flour
1 tablespoon Italian seasoning
1 1/2 teaspoon salt

In bowl, mix yeast and sugar. Add water and let rise (dissolve). In mixing bowl add flour, seasoning and salt. Then add yeast mixture. Mix for about 5 minutes. Spray hands and cookie sheet with cooking spray. Divide dough into two balls and form into balls. Cover with towel and let raise for 30 minutes. Reshape dough, and brush with 3 tablespoons melted butter. Sprinkle with a little more Italian seasoning and a little sea salt. Bake at 425 for 10 minutes, then lower temperature to 375 and bake for 15 minutes. Serve as is, or dip in olive oil and balsamic.

Pumpkin Rolls with Caramel Frosting

I am normally a bit intimidated by cinnamon rolls. They always seem like they take forever. There are so many steps, and to be honest, I am lazy! Don't get me wrong, I love good food, but I hate slaving away. I would rather be having fun with the kids. This recipe however, is seriously simple. And the result....is A-MAZING! I brought them over to my Grandma's birthday party...and they were a huge hit. 

So now that it is October...and the weather is changing (oh my goodness...it is going to be in the 50's in a few short days)...take some time to make these. You won't be sorry! And maybe for some extra yumminess, add a little bit of mini chocolate chips.

Source: The Girl Who Ate Everything

Ingredients:

1/3 cup milk

2 tablespoons butter

1/2 cup canned pumpkin

2 tablespoons sugar

1/4 teaspoon nutmeg

1 tablespoon pumpkin pie spice

1/2 teaspoon salt

2 1/4 teaspoons active dry yeast

2 cups flour

1/2 cup brown sugar

2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

2 tablespoons melted butter

Frosting:

1/4 cup butter

1/2 cup brown sugar

2 tablespoons milk

1/4 teaspoon vanilla

1/4 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice

a dash of salt

3/4 cup powdered sugar

In sauce pan, heat milk and 2 tablespoons butter until warm. In large mixing bowl, combine pumpkin, sugar, nutmeg, pumpkin pie spice and salt. Add milk mixture and mix well. Beat in egg and yeast. Add 1 cup of flour and beat on low for 5 minutes. Add remaining flour and mix well. Cover and let rise for about an hour. Spray surface with cooking spray and knead dough a few times until smooth. Roll dough into approximately a 12x10 rectangle. 

In small bowl melt butter. Brush butter onto dough. Combine in another bowl brown sugar and cinnamon. Sprinkle over butter. Then roll jellyroll style. With a knife cut into 1/2 to 1 inch slices. Place onto greased baking pan. Cover and let rise for another 30-45 minutes. Bake at 350 for 15-20 minutes, or until golden brown. 

While baking, make caramel frosting. Heat butter in a sauce pan until melted. Add brown sugar and milk. Cook over medium low for about a minute. Let cool. Add vanilla, pumpkin spice, salt and powdered sugar. Mix well. Drizzle over pumpkin rolls. 

Zucchini Bread

Fall is in the air. The temperatures are so much cooler, football has started (Go Utes), good TV is about to start...and I am ready to start baking! Zucchini bread was on my list of "to do's" this year...and this recipe was awesome! 

Source: Paula Deen
Ingredients:

3 1/4 cups flour
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon nutmeg
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon cinnamon
3 cups sugar
1 cup vegetable oil
4 eggs
1/3 cup water
2 cups zucchini, grated
1 teaspoon lemon juice
1 cup chapped walnuts or pecans

In bowl, combine flour, salt, nutmeg, baking soda, cinnamon and sugar. In separate bowl combine oil, eggs, water, zucchini, and lemon juice. Mix wet ingredients into the dry ingredients. Fold in nuts. Spray 2 loaf pans with nonstick spray and bake for approximately 1 hour at 350.http://www.foodnetwork.com/paula-deen/index.html

Garlic Knots and Something Fun...

We're back! It has been a long time! I swear we have had a little bit of every thing go on this past month or so...between weddings, a death in the family, vacations, a possible broken arm, school starting, soccer and dance resuming, and soaking up the last few weeks of Summer...we are a little exhausted! But things are good. 

A few weeks ago, I was cleaning the house, and for some reason was watching the Cooking Channel. I am not going to lie, I like Food Network better. But I am a fan of Kelsey Nixon. She is a Utah girl, which makes me like her even more. She had this awesome looking recipe for garlic knots, and I knew I had to try them! The recipe is super easy...and seriously, your house will smell amazing. 

PS...I have to let you all in on something exciting. Last week I was visited by the Appliances Online Fairy Hobmother (thanks to a comment I made over at Red Couch Recipes). The visit made my week. We had a horrible week last week. I was husbandless, Brooks' uncle passed away, so he left to go to Florida, my sweet little man got hurt...and I just was about at my breaking point. I received this nice little email...and a gift card to be used on Amazon!!! And guess what...The Fairy Hobmother wants to visit you as well! How lucky!!! Just be sure to leave a comment on this post and one of you lucky readers will be chosen! 

Source: Kelsey Nixon

Ingredients:

Dough

2 1/4 teaspoons active dry yeast

2 teaspoons sugar

1 3/4 cup warm water

3 tablespoons olive oil

2 teaspoons salt

4 cups bread flour

In mixer, combine flour, salt and olive oil. In separate bowl, combine yeast, sugar and water. Let rise. Then combine yeast mixture with flour mixture. Mix together until dough is will combined. It should be a bit sticky. Cover with plastic wrap until double in size (1 1/2 to 2 hours). 

Butter

2 sticks unsalted butter

2 tablespoons thyme

2 tablespoons rosemary

3/4 cup Parmesan (divided)

5 garlic cloves, grated

2 teaspoons kosher salt

Mix together butter, thyme, rosemary, garlic and 2 tablespoons Parmesan cheese. 

When dough is risen, stretch dough on floured surface into a rectangle. Spread butter over half the dough. Fold dough in half, covering the butter with the dough. Using a pizza cutter, divide dough into approximately 18 strips. Then stretch each strip and tie into a knot, and tuck ends under the center. Place on a greased baking sheet. Sprinkle knots with additional Parmesan and bake at 375 for 15-20 minutes or until golden brown. In the microwave melt the remaining butter. When knots are down, baste with melted butter. Enjoy!

Honey Wheat Bread

My friend Betsy makes the best wheat bread. After a lot of begging (not really:)) she shared the recipe with me.

I had a hard time finding the vital wheat gluten and the dough enhancer...luckily Macey's sells it! So if you are ever having a hard time finding it, just check there! I followed her recipe exactly, because I love how it tastes...but if you want to just let it rise in the bread pan, do that until double in size, then put in the oven!

Makes 4 loaves (half recipe if you only want 2 loaves)

Ingredients:

5 cups warm water
3 T. yeast
2 T. Salt
2/3 cup oil
1/4 cup dough enhancer
1/4 cup vital wheat gluten
2/3 cup honey
10 cups wheat flour

In a separate bowl, add yeast to warm water. Let rise. In mixer combine salt, oil, dough enhancer, gluten and honey. Then add water. Slowly add flour one cup at a time. Mix well. Cover with plastic wrap and let rise for an hour. Then separate into 4 equal loaves and put in greased bread pan. Let rise in oven at 170 for 30 minutes then turn oven to 350 and let cook for 30 minutes. Enjoy! 

Grilled Polenta with Sausage and Pepper White Sauce

We have used this sauce before on Pasta, but this time we mixed it up on some polenta triangles.  You may not like polenta, or think you don't, but this is worth a try.

Ingredients:

Polenta:

1/12 cups yellow corn meal

1 cup milk

1 cup water

1 tsp salt

1 tsp pepper

1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese

Sauce:

1 lb. Italian sausage 

1/2 of green and red pepper sliced 

1/2 of a red onion sliced

1 garlic clove minced

1 teaspoon basil

red pepper flakes (just a dash)

3 tbsp butter

3 tbsp flour

1 cup heavy cream

2 cups milk

1/4 cup Parmesan cheese

1 tsp salt and pepper

Start by boiling your milk and water for the polenta in sauce pan.  Stir in the corn meal, salt and pepper and cheese.  Cook until thick like grits or cream of wheat.  In a cake or lasagna dish lined with plastic wrap, pour the mixture and cover.  Refrigerate until completely cooled and solid.

While cooling, cook the sausage and strain the oil.  Then add the peppers, onion, garlic and spices in a pan.  Add the butter, and flour into a sauce pan and cook for a few minutes, add the milk and the other ingredients and let cook over medium high until thick.

Remove the polenta from the fridge and cut into small squares or triangles.  On a very hot skillet, or grill pan, spray some non-cooking spray, and grill the squares or triangles until they get a nice crispy outside. Do this on both sides.

Serve the polenta with the sauce over top.  It is a great alternative to pasta, and actually this polenta will work with any sauce.  Try it as a substitute, and you will get a round of applause.  

Buttermilk Cornbread

I have never been a cornbread kind of girl....until recently. Sorry if I offend you, but I always thought it was weird when people put actual corn in the cornbread. It just didn't seem right to me. This recipe is one that I saw a long time ago on my friend Hillary's blog. Seriously...this is so good. We have made this recipe a few times, and have tried even making them into muffins...of course cutting the cooking time down to about 18 minutes or so. Enjoy!

Ingredients:


2 cubes butter
1 1/3 cup sugar
2 cups buttermilk
4 eggs
1 tsp. salt
1 ¼ cup cornmeal
2 ¾ cup flour
1 ½ tsp. baking powder
½ tsp. soda

Cream together the butter and sugar. Then add buttermilk, eggs and salt. Mix well. Finally add the remaing ingredients. Mix and put in a gr1eased 9 x 13  cake pan. Bake at 375 for 35-40  minutes.

Navajo Taco Fry Bread

You have all seen our sponsor, Aunt Peg's...well there is also an Aunt Peg's Recipe Box! One day I was browsing through their recipes and found this great recipe for fry bread. Normally I would just use Rhodes Rolls and chili, but this was such a fun way to change it up. We used ground chicken, from Gold'n Plump instead of ground beef, but feel free to use whatever kind of meat you want (or go without the meat)! We just loved this meal...and how easy it was!

Ingredients:
Makes 12

Fry Bread:
2 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup nonfat dry powdered milk
3 teaspoons baking powder
4 1/2 teaspoons shortening
2/3 to 3/4 cup water
oil for frying

Mix together all dry ingredients, then add shortening. Add water gradually. Start with 2/3 cup, and then see if you need more. Mix to form a firm ball. Then divide into 12 smaller balls, cover and let it rest for about 10 minutes. Then roll each ball into flat circles. Heat oil over stove top. (We used our new dutch oven we received from Cache Valley.) It was perfect. Drop 2-3 of your fry bread into the oil. Fry for about a minute on each side, or until golden brown.

Taco Filling:
1 pound ground chicken
1 onion, chopped
2 cans black beans
1 4 ounce can diced green chilies
taco seasoning
lettuce
tomato
grated cheese (we LOVE Cache Valley Cheese)
sour cream
salsa

Brown chicken. Then add onion. Add black beans, chilies and taco seasoning. Let cook for about 5 minutes, while you are finishing up your fry bread. Serve with lettuce, tomato, cheese, sour cream and salsa.

Butterscotch Pull-Aparts

My friend Cyndi was kind enough to share this recipe with me. These are so easy, gooey, and delish. I think they are a perfect dessert, breakfast, or snack. 

Ingredients:
18-20 Frozen Rhoades Rolls
½ cup Chopped Pecans or Walnuts
1 small box Butterscotch Cook & Serve Pudding
6 tablespoons Butter
1 Cup Brown Sugar
Cinnamon

Sprinkle walnuts/pecans in the bottom of a Bundt pan that has been sprayed with Pam. Place Rhoades Rolls around the pan. Sprinkle butterscotch pudding packet over rolls. Sprinkle rolls with cinnamon. Melt butter in microwave & add brown sugar to it. Pour mixture over top of rolls. Let raise until dough reaches rim of pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes or until golden brown. Cover with foil the last 10 minutes of baking time so that the tops don’t get too brown. Remove from oven and turn bundt cake pan onto a plate. Yum!  

Monkey Bread

This is MY PERSONAL FAVORITE roll/bread of all time. Can you believe we have been blogging for a year and a half, and this is the first time I have posted this recipe! This is what I can remember eating for as long as I can remember. I think my Momma has perfected it. I always thought that when people talked about monkey bread, it was this...but I have since learned, most peoples are sweet. I absolutely love the buttery outside and how soft and yummy the inside is. This recipe will make two bundt cake pans worth, so it will be perfect for your Thanksgiving meal. But you don't just have to have this on Thanksgiving. Make it any time...share it with your friends! I promise they will want the recipe!

Makes Two Pans

Ingredients:

1/4 cup warm water

1 tablespoon sugar

1 tablespoon yeast

2 cups luke warm milk

1/2 cup sugar

1 teaspoon salt

2 eggs (beaten)

6 cups flour

4 tablespoons vegetable oil

2 stick melted butter (for the pan)

In a bowl combine sugar, yeast and water. Let rise. Warm milk in the microwave. Beat eggs in a seperate bowl. Add all ingredients, except flour in mixing bowl. Mix well. Then slowly add flour about 1/2 cup at a time. The dough will be a little sticky. You might add 1/2 cup more of the flour (you don't want the dough to be stiff). Let rise for 2 hours. Separate dough into two equal parts (one for each pan). Then roll out dough on a floured surface. Use a circle cutter (or a glass cup) and cut out circles. Spray cooking spray into bundt pan. Add one stick melted butter into each bundt cake pan. Then add side by side your dough until pan full. Let rise for another hour. Bake at 400 for 20 minutes, or until golden brown. 

Dinner Rolls

Since we've been married, we pretty much go to my parents for dinner every Sunday. It was always fun because we got to hang out with my brothers and sister. Now my sister moved to Vegas and one of my brothers moved to Hawaii...so it is usually just us (and occasionally my other brother). Either way, I love that we get a day off of cooking. My mom always makes something yummy. Almost every week it is these rolls. They are what we have eaten since I was a kid, and I love them. Hopefully you will to!

Ingredients:

2 tablespoons dry yeast

1 tablespoon sugar

1/4 cup warm water

1/3 cup sugar

1/3 cup shortening

1 3/4 cups warm water

2 1/2 teaspoon salt

2 cups milk

5-6 cups flour

1 egg

In mixing bowl combine yeast, 1/4 cup water and 1 tablespoon sugar. Let yeast grow. Then add sugar, shortening, salt, water, milk, egg and 2 cups flour. Mix together. Add two more cups flour and continue mixing until smooth. Slowly add the rest of the flour 1/2 cup at a time until well mixed. Cover and let rise until triple in size. Then cut and mold into roll shape. Place on greased cookie sheet and let rise from another hour or so. Bake at 400 for 15-20 minutes, or until browned. Butter the top and enjoy!

Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Bread

Yes...I currently have an obsession. I think it is driving Brooks crazy. I am pretty sure my kids are going along with my obsession though. Every time I make anything pumpkin, they all say, "This is so much better than the store kind." Thanks kids for always making me feel good! Hopefully your kids will feel the same way!

Makes 2 large loaves
Ingredients:

1 3/4 cup pumpkin (I use Libby's 100% pure pumpkin)
3 cups sugar
1 cup vegetable oil
2/3 cup water
1 teaspoon vanilla
4 eggs
1 1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 tablespoon cinnamon
1 tablespoon nutmeg
3 1/2 cups flour
chocolate chips

Combine pumpkin and sugar. Then add oil, water, vanilla and eggs. Mix well. Add dry ingredients. Mix until smooth. Then add chocolate chips. Spray two large bread pans with cooking spray. Distribute mixture evenly in both. Bake at 350 for 60 minutes, or until toothpick comes out clean!

Chicken Pesto Roll-Ups

I have a huge file on my computer of recipes that I have seen on tv or have been given from friends...so I have NO idea where this recipe came from. I did change a few things to make it easier for me. Man was it good. We love pesto, so if you do as well, you will love this recipe!

Ingredients:
2 tubes of buttermilk biscuits
4 tablespoons pesto (we like to make our own, but Costco sells good pesto as well)
1 (8 oz.) package cream cheese, softened
2 chicken breasts, shredded
1/2 of a red peppers, chopped
Parmesan Cheese
Alfredo Sauce



Lay biscuits down on a floured countertop to form a rectangle. Press biscuits together. Then use rolling pin to flatten the biscuits.
Mix together the pesto and cream cheese mixture. Spread over the dough. Then layer with the shredded chicken and peppers.
Roll like you are rolling cinnamon rolls and then slice into equal sections. Place onto a greased baking sheet. Sprinkle parmesan cheese over the top. Bake at 375 for 25-30 minutes (until golden brown). Then top with alfredo sauce. Enjoy!  

Parmesan Breadsticks

Breadsticks are one of our favorite things to go along with pasta or soup. When I am out of  rhodes rolls for our usual breadstick recipe, we make this one. They taste really good, but yet take no time at all!

Ingredients:

1 tablespoon yeast
2 tablespoons sugar
1 1/2 cup warm water

Combine and let rise in a bowl.

In mixing bowl add:
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 cups flour
Then and yeast mixture once it is risen. Knead for about 5 minutes. Let dough rise for 15 minutes. Roll out long enough to fit in the bottom of a cookie sheet. Pour 1/4 cup melted butter over the top. Sprinkle with about 1/4 cup grated parmesan cheese, and a little oregano, garlic salt, and basil. With pizza cutter, slice into rows. Let rise for another 15 minutes. Bake at 375 for 18-20 minutes.

Buttermilk Biscuits

   My granny makes the best biscuits in the world.  I have tried to make all kinds of recipes to at least come close to the home made deliciousness she provides with her biscuits.  This is the closest, I can get.  I guess I will have to wait until I am a granny to master her perfection. However me being a granny is going to be almost as difficult as eating only one of these biscuits.... 

PS...this goes perfect with our gravy recipe.

Makes 10 - 2 inch biscuits

Ingredients:

2 cups flour

2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

6 tblsp butter (very cold) cut into squares

3/4 cup buttermilk

   Preheat your oven to 450.  In your food processor mix all the dry ingredients.  Now, drop in the butter cubes, and pulse it 4-5 times until the butter is mixed, but leaving little flakes of butter.  Add the butter milk and pulse until the mixture is all wet.  Sometimes it stays kind of crumbly, which is perfectly fine.  Just dump out the mixture onto the counter top, and press it together gently.  Don't let the butter melt.  Wrap it in plastic wrap and chill in the fridge for a couple of minutes to keep the butter cold. (cold butter  equals flaky biscuits).

  Remove dough from the fridge, and roll the dough out to about 1/2 inch thick.  cut out using a glass or biscuit cutter that was dipped in flour.  Try not to twist the glass as you cut, it will prevent it from rising unevenly.  Place on an un-greased pan about 1 inc apart, and cook until golden brown 10-12 minutes. For browner tops, brush with melted butter or milk before baking. Remove from the oven and serve hot.  So tasty, flaky and buttery.  I hope you enjoy these as much as I enjoy my granny!  Love you granny! 

    

       

Baguette

With all the pasta we eat, we always have some sort of rolls or bread to go along with it. I always love something to dip in the sauce! This baguette recipe is quick, easy and delish.


Makes 2 loaves
Ingredients:

1 1/2 cups warm water
1 1/2 tablespoons yeast
2 teaspoons sugar
3 1/4 cups flour
3 tablespoons water
2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon sugar

Combine yeast and sugar with warm water. Let yeast rise. In mixing bowl add flour, sugar, salt and water. Mix and slowly add yeast mixture. Continue mixing until dough is smooth. Let rise for about 30 minutes. Then cut mixture in half. Roll to make two long loaves. Place on a greased cookie sheet. Let rise for another 30 minutes. Then slice a long slit down the middle of the dough. Bake at 450 for about 15 minutes. Brush with melted butter and serve.

Cheese Rolls

I don't know how many of you had these cheese rolls in high school...but they were my favorite thing to eat for lunch. You could smell them baking right when you got to school in the morning. Sometimes you could even snag one for breakfast.
A few years ago, we lived next door to my best friend from high school. Heather was always the best at bringing us treats. One day she brought over these yummy cheese rolls. The memories of walking the halls of good ol' Copper Hills High with her flooded my mind.
So if you went to school with me, or even went to another school in the area, chances are you had these. So grab your yearbook, a side of ranch dressing and reminisce!

PS...this makes a TON, so maybe get together with some of your old High School friends, or share with a neighbor, or two!  



Ingredients:

2 tablespoons yeast
1 tablespoon sugar
4 cups warm water
1/3 cup shortening
1/2 cup sugar
1 tablespoon salt
9 cups flour
4 cups grated cheese
1 egg for egg wash

Let the 2 tablespoons yeast, 1 tablespoon sugar and 1/4 cup water rise in a bowl. In mixing bowl add the rest of the water (3 3/4 cup), shortening, sugar and salt in a bowl. Slowly mix and add one cup of flour at a time. Mix until the dough is not to sticky. Let rise for about 30 minutes. Then split dough in half (you can do all at once if you prefer) and roll out (just like cinnamon rolls). Sprinkle cheese on the dough and roll. Cut into the size that you would like each roll to be. Place on a greased cookie sheet. Brush with an egg wash and sprinkle with a little more cheese, then let rise for another 45 minutes. Bake at 375 for 15-20 minutes.

Jalapeno Cornbread

This is just a take on my already posted cornbread recipe.  It's spicy, and savory, and works so well with the honey butter.

Serves 6-8

Ingredients:

3/4 cup of Cornmeal

1 1/4 cups of flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

1 cup of milk

1 egg

6 slices of bacon crisped up and crumpled

1/4 cup of bacon dripping (if you don't have enough use olive oil for the rest)

1 fresh jalapeno chopped. 

        

Honey-butter:

2 tblsp softened butter

2 tblsp of honey

2 tsp cinnamon

(stir them all together)

In a bowl mix all the dry ingredients, and make a well.  Mix in the egg (pre-beaten) and the milk and drippings. Stir until the whole mixture is wet. Add crisped chopped bacon, and chopped pepper and stir.  Pour into a small, greased, bread pan. (round or square).  Bake in a 400 degree oven for 20 to 25 minutes. You can check it to see if it is done, by putting in a toothpick and seeing if it comes out dry. Serve Hot! 

Top the bread with the honey-butter and eat up.

Banana Bread

We have had these bananas on our counter just ripening all week. I knew I wanted to make banana bread, but I have never made it before. I saw on my SIL, Cherie's new blog this recipe...so I figured we would try it out. This bread was so good...I am not a banana lover, but I sure did love this bread! Thanks for the recipe Cherie!

Makes 2 loaves
Ingredients:
1/4 cup butter
1 cup sugar
3 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup sour cream
1 cup mashed bananas
3 cups flour
1/2 cup chopped walnuts

Mix together the butter and sugar. Then add the eggs and vanilla. Once incorporated, add the rest of the ingredients. Mix well. Pour into greased bread pans and bake at 350 for 35-40 minutes.

White Bread

There is just something about homemade bread that makes me smile. And I  just love my Momma's white bread recipe. It is super simple, doesn't require a lot of effort, and tastes awesome! Her original recipe makes SIX loaves...which really, I don't need, so I just cut the recipe in half. This is perfect to make when you are having soup...or any day really! 

2 cups milk-1 hot and 1 cold

1/4 cup shortening

1 tablespoon sugar

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 cup warm water

2 tablespoons yeast

1 tablespoon sugar

10 cups flour-maybe a little more or a little less 

In a seperate bowl add yeast, sugar and water and let rise. Warm one cup milk in the microwave. Then add shortening to the milk and stir until mostly dissolved. Then in your mixing bowl add that milk, and the cold milk, sugar and salt. Mix, and then add yeast once risen. Then slowly add flour-a cup at a time. Keep adding until dough is no no longer sticky. Let dough rise for about an hour. Then in greased bread pans add your dough-I had three bread pans. Let rise for another 1 1/2 hours to two hours. Bake at 375 for 20-25 minutes, or until lightly brown. Remove, spread a little butter on the top and enjoy!