Grandma's Easter Bread (Bread Machine). Great recipe for Grandma's Easter Bread (Bread Machine). I modified my grandmother's Easter Bread for my bread machine. She always topped it off with an egg-sugar glaze that she would then bake in the oven for a few minutes.
You can cook Grandma's Easter Bread (Bread Machine) using 8 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Grandma's Easter Bread (Bread Machine)
- Prepare 1 1/3 cups of milk.
- Prepare 4 1/4 cups of bread flour.
- It’s 3 tbsp of sugar.
- You need 1 1/2 tsp of salt.
- You need 1 of egg.
- It’s 2 1/2 tbsp of oil.
- Prepare 2 1/2 tsp of active dry yeast.
- Prepare 1 cup of raisins.
This is a traditional Italian bread that has a boiled egg for Easter decoration inside and a little pretty decorated icing on top. Delicious toasted or plain with anisette flavor. This bread can also have colored raw eggs put in the braids before baking. They will cook to hard boiled egg stage.
Grandma's Easter Bread (Bread Machine) step by step
Beat egg and combine with oil and milk.
Add flour, sugar, and salt.
Put an indentation in the center of the flour mixture.
Add yeast to indentation.
Set machine for regular white cycle.
Set machine to light crust.
When machine is ready for fruit add raisins.
Mix according to your manufactures instructions. Adding the anise seeds after first kneading and signal. Add flour if needed or drop of milk if needed upon mixture, to form a nice soft ball of dough. Find trusted bread machine recipes for white bread, wheat bread, pizza dough, and buns.. Grandma used to bake this in large greased cans coated with cornmeal, which added to the english muffin appearance.
