Preparation info
  • Yield

    2

    loaves, each 9½- by 5½- by 2
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in

By Emily Luchetti

Published 1993

  • About

A delicious bread to have on hand in and out of the freezer. It is great by itself for breakfast toasted with cinnamon; buttered and soaked with wild Tasmanian honey; or made into desserts like the summer pudding or pear charlotte.

Ingredients

  • 1 teaspoon dry yeast
  • ½ cup warm water
  • 3 tablespoons

Method

Combine the yeast and water in the bowl of an electric mixer. Stir in the sugar and let stand for 10 minutes.

Using the paddle attachment on medium low speed, stir in the eggs. Add the flour and salt, mixing until the flour is almost completely incorporated.

Change the dough hook and slowly add the butter on medium low speed. When all of the butter has been added, increase to me