Bahamas Bread

s'kat's Note:

Posted by request, this slightly sweet Bahamaian bread is absolutely heavenly!!

• Total Time: 3 hrs
• Prep Time: 2 hrs
• Cook Time: 1 hrs

Ingredients:

Yield: 1 loaf

• ¾ cup hot water
• ½ cup quick-cooking rolled oats (3 minute)
• 1 ½ tablespoons molasses
• 1 ½ tablespoons butter or 1 ½ tablespoons vegetable oil
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 1 ½ cups bread flour
• 1 ½ teaspoons active dry yeast

Directions:

1. Mix all the ingredients together and knead for thirty to forty seconds.
2. Let rise (about forty minutes) and knock down and knead for thirty seconds.
3. Repeat.
4. (Or let the bread machine do all the kneading and timing for you and go beach combing until it's time to cook the dough!) Allow final rise in a bread pan, about forty minutes, and preheat oven to 425 f.
5. Place in oven and decrease temperature to 350 f.
6. Bake for thirty minutes.

Reviews

[Buckwalter]

The loaf turned out with a beautiful, cripsy crust and soft inside. I chose to use the dough cycle of my bread machine to make this loaf. I was disappointed that the bread didn't have much flavor.

[Shari2]

Very easy to make. This is very good with a little bit on honey on it. Thanks 'skat.