Frozen Bread Dough Recipes

Steps:

• I sprinkle the yeast on the 4 cups water and add the 1/2 cup sugar and let the yeast work.
• In a large bowl or bread mixer mix powdered milk, 4 cups flour, salt and butter.
• Add the yeast water and mix (you can use an electric mixer) as you keep adding flour you will need to knead by hand (or use a bread mixer) Add flour until you get a stiff dough (you might not need all of flour, it depends on the moisture content of your flour) Knead for 15 minutes and then cover with a towel and let rest for 15 minutes.
• Divide dough into 4 equal balls.
• Smooth balls and place on a cookie sheet and cover with plastic wrap.
• Freeze balls until firm and then transfer to freezer bags and store in freezer.
• Recommended storage time 1 month.
• To Bake: remove frozen dough from freezer, open freezer bag and leave dough in bag to thaw or place on a cookie sheet and cover with plastic wrap to thaw.
• It is very important to have a plastic covering over dough to thaw (dough really dries out without the plastic covering).
• (It usually takes about 4 hours to thaw) Shape into loaves or leave round or make pizza crust or rolls or whatever you do with freezer dough.
• Let rise until doubled (1 1/2 hours) Bake regular bread loaves at 350 for 35 minutes.
• I like to brush the bread loaf with 1 beaten egg and return it to the oven for 5 minutes.

Steps:

• Regular method:.
• 1. Coat loaf pan with non stick coating cooking spray, Place frozen bread loaf in pan and cover with plastic wrap coated sprayed with non stick cooking spray.
• 2. Let rise until double until loaf is 1" above pan approximately 4-7 hours . Carefully remove wrap.
• 3. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Bake 20-25 minutes until bread is golden brown.
• 4 Remove from oven and place on wire rack to cool.
• 5. Brush top of loaf with melted butter or oleo, optional.
• 6. Let bread cool. Place bread on side for easier slicing.
• Easy overnight method:.
• 1. See #1 above.
• 2. Place in refrigerator 6-12 hours. Remove from refrigerator and let rise 2-3 hours, wrapped in plastic wrap that has been sprayed with non stick cooking spray until 1 " above pan and let rise 2-3 hrs until 1 " above pan. Remove wrap carefully.
• 3. See #3 through #6.

Steps:

• The night before:.
• Defrost dough and bring to room temperature
• Grease a 9x13 pan and sprinkle a little brown sugar in the bottom.
• Roll out the dough on a floured surface to about 1/4" thick (a long oval-shape is good).
• Spread butter all over the surface of the dough.
• Sprinkle buttered dough with brown sugar, cinnamon, walnuts and raisins.
• Drizzle about half of the caramel topping over the dough.
• Roll up the dough so it ends up as a long tube.
• Slice the dough into 3/4" rolls and place in the greased pan.
• SMASH the rolls down with the palm of your hand (you don't want them flat, just smushed).
• Drizzle the remaining icecream topping over the rolls.
• Spray saran wrap with cooking spray, cover the rolls tightly and place in the refrigerator overnight (they will rise slowly in the cold).
• The next morning:.
• Preheat oven to 350*F.
• Pop rolls in the hot oven for ~30 minutes or until golden brown and ENJOY.

Steps:

• Spray a large platter or bowl with cooking spray.
• Place the two frozen loaves on the platter or bowl and cover with plastic wrap that has also been sprayed (the spray will help the dough not to stick as you are cutting it off in the morning).
• Place in an unheated oven, out of the way of drafts, about ten hours before you want to fry it.
• In the morning, place the vegetable oil in a heavy pan about three inches deep.
• Heat the oil on medium high so that when a very small piece of dough is dropped in the oil, it sizzles.
• With a very sharp knife, slices off hunks of dough about the size of small baseball and pull them slightly so that they stretch out.
• Place in hot oil and brown on one side and then turn with fork and brown the other side.
• When done, drain on paper towels and repeat the process.
• Serve hot with butter (and I like a little salt on them), sprinkle with confectioners sugar.
• You may also try cinnamon and sugar or maple syrup.

Steps:

• Combine first 4 ingredients in a bowl. With a knife, cut loaf into 12 1/2 -inch slices, not quite cutting all the way through. Brush butter mixture on both sides of each slice. Place in loaf pan sprayed with nonstick cooking spray. Cover with plastic wrap. Let rise until 1 inch over top of pan. Preheat oven to 350°F Remove wrap and bake 25 minutes. Remove from pan immediately. Enjoy! :).