Pantry Secrets Bread Recipe

10 1/2 c flour1/2 c sugar or 1/3 c honey
1 Tablespoon Salt
3 heaping tablespoons saf-instant yeast
3 Tablespoons liquid lecithin
4 c hot water

Mix dry ingredients.  Add lecithin and water.  Mix for 1 minute (Bosch speed 1) and check consistency.  If dough is too dry, add more water.  Dough should be very sticky.  Mix for 5 minutes.  Do not add flour to the dough after it has finished mixing.  Spray counter and pans with Pam.  Shape loaves and cover with a dish towel.  Let raise 25 minutes.  Bake at 350 for 25 minutes.  This recipe makes four loaves of bread.

**For whole wheat bread, use the same recipe but add one cup of applesauce as part of the hot tap water and 1 additional tablespoon lecithin.  Mix for ten minutes.

This is a good recipe but I either need to only make half of a recipe or put the other half in the fridge for later.    This bread tends to be crumby and get stale quickly.  I like this recipe for pizza, focaccia bread (tomato powder, italian herbs, parmesan cheese and garlic salt), rolls, and dessert braids. 

Marti Riggs recommends increasing the sugar by 1/4 cup and reducing the salt.  She said it turns out like grandma sycamores bread.