Today's Task: Bread making...

If this baby comes late I'll certainly have enough food to feed an army...as long as I can keep John from eating it first.

Oatmeal Bread

• 3 c. quick oatmeal
• 1 scant T. salt
• 2/3 c. brown sugar
• 2 T. molasses
• 2 heaping T. shortening
• 3 pkgs. dry yeast
• 3/4 c. warm water
• 1tsp. white sugar
• 6-6 1/2 c. flour
• 3 c. boiling water

Pour 3 cups of boiling water over the first 5 ingredients. Stir until shortening is dissolved. Cool until lukewarm. Soak 3 packages dry yeast in 3/4 cup warm water with 1 teaspoon white sugar, let rise. Now mix yeast with oatmeal mixture. Stir well. Add 6 to 6 1/2 cups flour, one cup at a time. Knead or use dough mixer, let rise until double. Use 5 (1-lb.) coffee cans to bake round loaves. Fill cans 1/3 full. Cover to let rise. Bake at 35o degrees for 40-45 minutes.

**I used 4 loaf pans instead of the 5 coffee cans. Coffee cans would have been fun, but we didn't have any.

**I didn't let my dough rise enough the second time around, which is why my bread is a bit flat. Still tastes good though.

**This recipe comes from the Rosedale Bible Church cookbook pg. 209 for those that have it.