Yummy White Bread

I love homemade bread but if I'm going to go through the effort of doing it then it better be good...and this recipe is good. I've also used 1/2 white 1/2 wheat flour and it still is yummy!

Yummy White Bread

from Christie Maybe

½ cup warm water
2 T yeast
1 T sugar
2 cups flour
½ cup dry milk, optional
1 T salt
½ cup brown sugar
3 ½ cups hot tap water
¼ cup oil
¼ cup honey
6-7 cups flour

In a small bowl, soften yeast by sprinkling yeast into ½ cup warm water with 1 T of sugar sprinkled in. Stir and set aside to grow, about 5 minutes. In a mixing bowl, stir together 2 cups flour, dry milk (optional), salt, and brown sugar. Mix in hot water, oil, and honey. Add yeast. Mix in 5 cups of flour one cup at a time, then add additional flour by the ½ cupful until dough leaves sides of bowl and
comes to a ball. Remove dough from bowl and put 1 tsp of oil in bottom of the bowl. Roll the dough ball in the oil and let it rise for about 1 hour or until double in bulk. Punch down and form into loaves, 4 standard loaves, or 36 large cinnamon rolls. Rise a second time for 30 minutes and bake at 350 degrees for 25-30 min. Turn out of pans, and cool.