Recipes

TRAPPER'S SOURDOUGH BREAD
  • Ingredients
  • 2 cups sourdough starter
  • 2 tablespoons sugar
  • 4 cups flour
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 2 tablespoons shortening or vegetable oil
Directions
  1. Mix the flour, salt, and sugar and scoop a hollow in it
  2. Pour in the melted shortening and blend it with the sourdough starter inside the hollow. Then mix into a soft batter
  3. Add flour if too moist; or milk or water if too dry
  4. Knead well but don't let the gases escape
  5. Bang it around as fast as possible and break off into two loaf-sized chunks
  6. Let rise until dou- bled in size, punch down, then place in greased bread pans
  7. Preheat oven to 425F
  8. and bake for 15 minutes at this heat
  9. Turn heat down to 350F
  10. and finish baking for for about an hour
  11. Baking should result in doubling the size again, and the loaves should turn out crispy brown.


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