Ingredients:
• 18 cups – all purpose flour
• 1 cup – white Butter
• 1 cup – Molasses
• 1.5 cups – Sugar
• 3 tsps – Yeast
• 1 cup – Raisins
• 1 tsp – Cloves
• 1 tsp – spice
• 1 tsp – salt
Method:
- Put 1 cup warm water into a bowl.
- Add 2 tsp sugar and 3 tsp yeast.
- Melt butter in pan, put flour, sugar, raisins, cloves, salt into large pan and mix well.
- Add butter, molasses and yeast mixture.
- Mix well with hands, adding enough water to make smooth dough, not sticky.
- Knead well.
- When dough rises about 2 inches over the pan, punch down.
- When dough rises again, grease 6 bread pans and put two buns in a pan.
- When it rises 2 or 3 inches over the pan, put into oven to bake for about 1.5 hours over 250 degrees.
Recipe courtesy of Bramaramba Chandrashekar