Midway Utah Swiss Bread

My Aunt Echo, who is in the first and last picutres on the header, is an amazing person! She is a very talented cook who's food taste's delicous! So I decided to make her homemade swiss bread, YUM! I had to share her recipe, enjoy! 

Echo’s Swiss Bread:

5 cups Scalded Milk

3/4 cup shortening

Cool the mixture then add 4 eggs

1 1/2 cup hot tap water

3/4 cup sugar

2 T. heaping yeast 

Let these activate in a bowl 

10 cups, slowly add until the dough comes clean from the bowl

2 T. salt

Put all of liquids into kitchen aid or Bosch bowl with dough hook. And then slowly add flour then add the salt. Mix until dough is soft but not sticky. Put in a greased bowl, knead. Punch down a little turn dough over then let raise until doubled. Turn out of bowl and divide dough into six equal sections, divide each section in to to equal parts and roll into “snakes”. Then follow directions below on how to “weave” or “braid” the dough. After you put them in the loaf pans raise until they double again. Bake for 30-35 minutes @ 350. Take out the bread when hollow sound is made when you “thunk it”, it will also be golden brown.  

Weaving 101:

Place one of the ropes horizontally, & the other on top of it in a vertical orientation, as shown above.

Then, the left ”arm” crosses to the right side…

Then likewise, the right “arm” crosses to the left side.

Next, the  top strand of dough comes down and to the right, between the other two strands.

You have a knob of dough on top, & four strands of dough down and you are ready to braid.

Look for the strand that is at the bottom (2nd one from the left).  Pick it up & cross it over the two strands to the right of it.

The single rope off the the left follows it, but instead of crossing over two strands, it just crosses over one strand.

Continuing, look for the bottom-most strand closest to the table, and fold it over two strands.

Now the one off to the right in the picture above will follow it, but it will only cross over 1 strand

When there is hardly any dough left, press the strands together and tuck them under.

Push the two ends of the braid together a little bit to plump it up, & place on a floured baking sheet.