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St. Patrick's Day Green Bread
Prep Time
20 mins
Cook Time
27 mins
Rising Time
1 hr
Total Time
1 hr 47 mins
 
Course: Side Dish
Cuisine: American
Servings: 8 loaves
Author: Linda Loosli
Ingredients
  • 4 Cups Warm Milk
  • 8 Tsp. SAF Instant Yeast
  • 4 Eggs
  • 1/2 Cup Oil (I use olive oil)
  • 3 Tsp. Sea Salt
  • 1 Cup Sugar
  • 1 Cup Warm Water
  • 13-14 Cups White Flour
  • 1 Ounce Food Coloring (Green for St. Patrick’s Day)
Instructions
  1. Start with a Bosch Mixer, although you could make this in a bowl. Put the yeast, warm water, salt, oil, and sugar in the bowl.

  2. Add the eggs and lightly mix it in the Bosch so the eggs do not “cook.” This is where I add the food coloring.

  3. Then add the warm milk and flour slowly.

  4. Continue to add flour until the bread dough pulls away from the sides of the Bosch bowl.

  5. Knead for about 7-8 minutes. Place the dough in a greased bowl and cover with plastic wrap.

  6. Let the dough rise until double the original size.

  7. Punch down the dough and make into loaves and place these in greased pans (I make eight-1-pound loaves).

  8. Let it rise once again (using the same plastic wrap) until it doubles and then bake them at 350 degrees for 27 minutes.

  9. Lightly butter the tops of each loaf after baking and remove from the pans.

Recipe Notes

I like to use different colors of food coloring for different holidays. It takes a whole bottle (1 ounce) of green food coloring for this recipe. ***You can cut the bread into circles, that's really fun. You can also make French Toast with green bread, I love it!