Golden Thread Bread Food

GOLDEN THREAD BREAD

Steps:

• Combine sweet potatoes and raisins (or cranberries -- add as many as you like). Sprinkle with lemon juice. Mix lightly and set aside.
• Combine flour, 1 c sugar, baking powder, salt, baking soda, and mace (or nutmeg). Sift together into a large bowl.
• Cut shortening (or butter) into dry ingredients with a pastry blender (or two butter knives) until pea-sized bits form.
• Beat egg in a small bowl. Add orange juice and water. Fold liquid into dry ingredients by hand until flour is just moistened. Fold in sweet potato mixture.
• Place batter in a greased 9x5 loaf pan. Combine 1 tb sugar and cinnamon; sprinkle on top.
• Bake at 350F for 50 minutes or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean. Remove from pan and cool on rack.
• NOTES: This recipe takes a small sweet potato or half of a large one. The original called for two 9x5 loaf pans and baking for 40 minutes, but I like the bigger single loaf. The substitutions in parentheses are also my changes from the original.

GOLDEN HARVEST BREAD (BREAD MACHINE)

Steps:

• Place the water and squash into the bread machine bowl following with the rest of the ingredients being sure to keep the salt sugar and yeast in separate corners.
• Set bread machine to dough cycle. Press start. At the dried fruit cycle, the machine will beep you can add optional seeds.
• When cycle is done remove to floured surface punch down and shape into a round mound then gently press the center in . Cover with oiled plastic wrap and let rise 45 minutes. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Mix egg and turmeric together.
• Remove wrap. Slash along sides of bread up and down to form the look of a pumpkin. Brush with glaze. Place in preheat oven for 35-40 minutes.