Old Fashion Molasses Bread
By: Karlyn Oyama
Published: Thursday, December 3, 2009 - 2:50am

Ingredients




1 5/8 cups water
4 cups bread flour
3 tablespoons butter or margarine
2 tablespoons dry milk
 cup molasses
3 teaspoons active dry yeast
2 teaspoons salt

Preparation

1 Place ingredients in the bread machine pan in the order suggested by the machine's manufacturer. Select Dough or White Bread setting, and then Start. 2 If the dough does not form a ball on the paddle, add 1 tablespoon of flour at a time until the ball forms. Allow machine to complete selected cycle. 3 To bake conventionally, remove the dough from the bread machine pan after the Dough cycle has completed. Shape into a loaf, and place in a greased 9- by 5-inch loaf pan. Let rise until doubled. Bake at 350 degrees for about 40 minutes. 4 This recipe yields a 2 pound loaf. 5 Comments: Old fashioned New England flavor using a bread machine! You can mix the bread in the machine then bake it in the regular oven using your favorite pans. 6 Yield: 1 loaf