Mabon Sea Turtle Wisdom Bread Food

MABON SEA TURTLE WISDOM BREAD

Steps:

• Dissolve yeast in warm water.
• Whisk in sugar/honey, salt, and oil.
• Slowly fold in flour, as it becomes harder to stir, turn the dough onto a lightly floured countertop and dust the dough with flour.
• Knead the dough by folding it in half and pressing it with the palm of your hand until it springs back when you poke it lightly with a finger.
• Form into ball and place in lightly greased bowl.
• Dust dough with flour and cover it with a clean cloth towel.
• Let it rise for 30 minutes.
• After the dough has risen once, punch it down and form balls for the shell about 6-inches, 3-inch balls for the head , and 2-inch balls for the legs, and assemble on a greased cookie sheet.
• Etch a crisscross pattern on top of shell with a knife.
• Use 2 raisins for eyes.
• Let rise for 30 more minutes.
• Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• Brush lightly with egg wash (1 egg whisked with 1 tbs. water and couple drops green food coloring) and bake for 25 minutes or until golden brown.

BREAD MACHINE TURTLE BREAD

Steps:

• Place all ingredients except chocolate chips and pecans in bread machine pan in the order recommended by the manufacturer.
• Add chocolate chips and pecans at the Raisin/Nut signal or 5 minutes before the last kneading cycle ends.
• Select Sweet or Basic/White cycle.
• Use Medium or Light crust color.
• Remove baked bread from pan, and cool on wire rack.