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Victorian tea bread

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Ingredients:
1 packYeast
3/4 cupMilk, warm
1 1/2 cupWhite sugar
11 cupAll-purpose flour
2 Eggs
3 Sticks butter
Golden raisins
Maraschino cherries, whole
Procedures:
1Directions: dissolve yeast cake (or active dry yeast) in ?cp luke warm milk.
2Put in mixing bowl 1 cp flour, 1t white sugar, add dissolved yeast.
3Beat for few minutes (until smooth) and let rise (rest for 20 min).
4Then add 3 cps luke warm milk to batter, 1 ?cps white sugar, 1t salt, 2 eggs (beaten), ?cp melted butter.
5Beat for few min. add 3 cps flour, mix well.
6Add 6-8 more cps flour gradually and another 1/3 cp butter to make soft, but kneadable dough.
7Knead for 8-10 minutes.
8Add 1 ?cp raisins and some maraschino cherries.
9Put into greased tins (loaf pans), let rise for about 90 min. under damp kitchen towel.
10Spread with butter and sprinkle with white sugar.
11Bake at 350! for about 1 hour.
12Note: this recipe produces a lovely, semi-sweet, cake-like bread which is delicious lightly toasted and served with butter or preserves with devonshire cream.