Bread Oatmeal Grandma Hopper's Famous Bread

By Floridaberry

150 hyear old Bostonian Oatmeal Bread. Fixed for my brother and I when we were kids.

Ingredients

• 1 heaping cup old fashioned oatmeat.
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 1/2 cup molasses (medor Dark)
• 4 tablespoons shortening or Bacon fat)
• Over all this pour 1 pint boiling water
• Let stand until cool.
• Add 1 cake yeast dissolved in 1/3 cup warm water.
• Add 5 1/2 cups (more or less) flour and knead thoroughly being careful not to add more flour than needed to keep dough from sticking to board. Let rise double in bulk in a warm place. Knead into 2 lar

Preparation

Step 1

Really the most delicious bread. Recipe came from Thelma Magruder and dated 1952. Also said it came from American Home Magazine