My "Famous Bread" (as requested by my dear friend Meghan:))

Hello everyone,
I make this bread and everyone that has it just loves it! I always have to make it at our Church's Fellowship Meals (and am always more than happy to do so), because they just love it. The first time I took it, everyone just said how much they loved it and at the second one that we went to, it was requested, so now I just make it for every Fellowship Meal, it's one thing that gets eaten up there all the time. I, of course, make it at home a lot too and am more than happy to do that as well:) Anyway, my sweet friend Meghan asked me to put it up here, so here it is:

Katie’s Homemade Bread
Makes 3 loaves

½ Cup lukewarm water
1 package (OR 2 tsp) yeast
1 tsp sugar
2 Cups lukewarm water
1 ¼ tsp salt
1/3 Cup sugar
1 ¾ T shortening
7 or 8 cups flour (I find 7 works just fine)
3 T Dough Enhancer (optional) we purchase ours from
www.marmeedear.com

Dissolve yeast and 1 tsp sugar in ½ cup lukewarm water. Add water, salt, sugar, shortening and dough enhancer, mix well. Add flour two cups at a time. Turn dough on to lightly floured surface. Knead adding more flour as necessary to keep it from sticking until smooth and elastic . Let rise until doubled in size. Roll out on a lightly floured surface and shape the dough into three loaves. Put in greased loaf pans and let rise for about 35 or so minutes. Bake at 350 degrees for 30-45 minutes (each oven is different J) until top is light brown and sounds hollow when you knock on the top!
Delicious, hot out of the oven spread with some real butter!

I actually don't make any other kind of bread because everyone loves this one. I have made others, but everybody says that this is the best. Hope you like it!
Alive because of His Blood,
Bekah

Two more favorites, by all five of them.

Love this song! (Celtic Thunder fella)