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Old-Fashioned Missouri Tomato Bread
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Course
Side Dish
Cuisine
American, Amish, Italian
Ingredients
4 1 /2
cups
tomato juice
4
tablespoons (½ stick)
butter
6
tablespoons
sugar
2
tablespoons
salt
1
tablespoon
ground oregano
1
tablespoon
ground basil
1 /2
cup
ketchup
3
tablespoons
active dry yeast
12
cups
all-purpose flour, approximately
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 350°F. Grease 4 loaf pans and set aside.
Heat the tomato juice to lukewarm in a large saucepan.
Add the butter, sugar, salt, oregano, basil, ketchup, and yeast.
Let the mixture set a few minutes todissolve the yeast.
Stir in enough flour to form a soft dough, kneading when necessary.
Let the dough rise in a warm place for 20 minutes.
Punch down the dough.
Divide the dough among the prepared pans.
Allow to rise for 20 minutes longer.
Bake for 1 hour.
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