Mabon Sea Turtle Wisdom Bread Recipes

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.

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.

Steps:

• 1. Dissolve the yeast in the warm water. Add honey and mix well. Stir in the whole wheat flour, salt, vegetable oil, and butter and mix until a stiff dough has formed. Gradually work the all-purpose flour into the mix, one cup at a time. Turn the dough onto a lightly floured countertop, and knead for about fifteen minutes. When it reaches the point where it's sort of elastic, shape it into a ball and place it into an oiled bowl. Cover with a warm, damp cloth, and allow to sit and rise until it's doubled in size -- usually about 45 minutes.
• 2. Punch the dough down and cut in half, so you can make two loaves of bread. Place each half in a greased loaf pan, and allow to rise. Once the dough has risen an inch or two above the top of the loaf pan, pop them in the oven. Bake at 375 for half an hour, or until golden brown at the top. When you remove the loaves from the oven, allow to cool for about fifteen minutes before removing from the pan. If you like, brush some melted butter over the top of the hot loaves, to add a pretty golden glaze to them.
• 3. Note - If you're doing this in a bread machine, remember, the recipes makes two loaves. Halve everything if you're allowing the machine to do the mixing. If you hand mix it, you can still drop the single-loaf balls of dough into the machine to bake.