Toms’ Boat Bread

“Tom’s Boat Bread” – 04DEC2011

Ingredients:

The day before:

Mix 4 cups of flour mix / with 3 cups of warm water. Mix 1 pack of yeast w/ 1 cup of warm water and stir into flour mix. Cover with towel and set aside in warm place for 12 / 24 hours.

Next Day:

Add ¼ to ½ cup of sour cream to ½ cup of wheat germ and stir. Mix together 1 tsp. baking soda w/ 2 Tbl. spoons sugar and stir into sour cream mixture then stir this into the bread dough. Stir in additional flour until the dough becomes too stiff to stir with a spoon. Turn out onto a floured board and knead in more flour until smooth / moist / and satiny; (knead between 60 – 80 times / don’t exceed 80 times)

Divide dough, fold over and seal bottoms & put into 2 bread pans.  Score tops, cover, and let rise. (about 2hrs).

Bake @ 350 degrees for 30 to 40 min, until loaves brown on top and pull awayfrom sides of the pans.  When thumped on the top they should sound hollow when done.

Enjoy,

Tom Weza………..Onboard “FAITH”