Recipe: Vermont Maple Bread

Vermont Maple Bread
recipelink.com Chat Room Recipe Swap - 2001-09-02
From: Janet Fielden
Newsgroup: rec.food.cooking

Have a wonderful recipe for Vermont Maple Bread. Grew up in Northern Vermont and maple syrup is a staple in your kitchen. It's also good drizzled on ice cream. This bread has a wonderful sweet flavor to it. My grandmother used tomade this all the time when we were kids. She even won some local contests with this recipe.

3/4 cup boiling water
1 cup hot coffee
1 cup rolled oats
1/3 cup shortening
1/2 cup maple syrup
1/2 cup sugar
2 tsp salt
2 pkgs dry yeast
1/4 cup lukewarm water
2 eggs, unbeaten
5 1/2 cup sifted bread flour or enough to make stiff dough

Combine boiling water, coffee, rolled oats, shortening, Maple Syrup, sugar, and salt. Let this mixture cool until lukewarm. Dissolve yeast in 1/4 lukewarm water and add to mixture. Blend in the eggs. Gradually add the sifted flour and mix until smooth. Add enough more flour to make stiff dough. Place in greased bowl, cover, and let rise until double in size. Knead a very little and make into two loaves. Place in two well-greased bread pans, and let it rise again. Bake in moderate over 350F for one hour.