Bread

Norm's Bread
2 c. warm water ½ c. honey 1 egg 2 T. butter	1 T. yeast pinch of salt ~6 c. flour (substitute 1c. wheat)
Disolve sugar & honey in the warm water. When the water is just cool enough to leave your finger in, add yeast. Wait 10 minutes. Mix in butter, egg, and salt. Slowly add the flour until it is just about to loose it's stickyness. Knead for ~10 minutes. Let it raise until ~2X it's origanal size. Punch down & form into rolls, buns, or loaves. Let raise for 1 hour. Bake at 350 for 20-30 minutes or until golden brown.

Norm's Tea Ring
4 c. warm water 2 T. honey 1 t. salt 1/2 c. sugar	4 T. margarine 2 eggs 2 T. yeast flour
Let set 5 minutes. Stir in approx. 8 c. flour Knead for 5 minutes. Let raise until double. Punch down, roll out into a 12" X 48" piece. Spread with 4 T. of margarine. Sprinkle with cinnamon & white sugar. Roll. Cut in 4 pieces. Shape each piece into a circle on a pizza pan. Cut top with scissors. Let raise for one hour, or until double. Bake at 350 for 25 minutes. Frost with powdered sugar frosting and top with halved marchino cherries.

Norm's Tea Ring (the extended remix)

Get out your biggest mixing bowl and fill it about a fourth full of warm water. Break off a halof a stick of margarie and put that in. Add to this a blop of honey and a couple shakes of salt and two handfuls of sugar. Crack 2 eggs and add them. Moosh all of the melting margarine and eggs with your hands. If the water is too hot for your hands, it's too hot for the yeast. Add two tablespoons of yeast. Now you can call your neighbor or something and let this stuff rest for five minutes.

Have someone else in the house start dumping flour into the bowl while you stir it with a big wooden spoon (it has to be a big spoon or the handle will break). Keep adding flour until you can't use the big spoon anymore, then dump it onto the counter and start kneading. If it sticks to your hands, you need more flour. Knead this until you break out into a sweat and can't take it anymore. Butter your mixing bowl (don't wash it, we don't like to do dishes) and put the bread back into that bowl, put butter on top of it to keep it moist and cover with a towel. Lat raise until it starts falling out over the bowl.

Punch down and roll out into a long rectangle. Use your fingers and spread on the other half a stick of margarine. Sprinkle with cinnamon and white sugar. Roll the whole thing up and cut in half and then each half into half again so that you have four pieces. Shape into a circle on a pizza pan. Cut slices witha scissors to shape your tea ring. Pat down. Leat raise about an hour. Bake at 350. After about 25 minutes ask the other person in the house if they think the bread is done yet. Have a discussion on whether bread is done by timing or by color or by some other method. When cool, frost with powdered sugar frosting and halved maraschino cherries.

Norm's Sticky Buns
2 c. warm water ½ c. honey 1 egg 2 T. butter 1 T. yeast pinch of salt ~6 c. flour	Goo: ½ c. brown sugar ¼ c. butter 2 T. corn syrup cinnimon sugar
Make bread as above. Instead of forming into loaves, roll out dough until it is about a quarter of an inch thick and a foot wide. Smear the top with butter & sprinkle on cinnimon & sugar. Roll up the bread & squish the end shut.Cut into 24 pieces. Disolve the goo ingredeients, & put in the bottom of acake pans. set the rolls in the goo & let raise. Bake at 350 for 20 minutes or until golden brown.

Zucchini Bread
3 eggs 1 c. oil 2 c. sugar 2 c. peeled & grated zuchini 3 c. flour 1 t. salt	1 t. soda 1 T. cinnamon 2 t. nutmeg ¼ t. baking powder ½ c. nuts
Beat eggs until light & foamy. Add oil, sugar, & zucchini. Mix lightly but well. Add flour, salt, b.p. & spices until blended. Makes 2 9x5 loaves. Bake at 350 for 1 hour.

Pumpkin Bread
2 c. pumpkin 3 c. sugar 1 c. oil 2/3 c. water 4 eggs 3.5 c. flour 2 t. baking soda	1.5 t. salt 2 t. cinnamon 2 t. nutmeg 1/2 t. allspice 1 t. vanilla 1/2 t. almond extract
Grease & flour 2 loaf pans. Preheat oven to 350. Beat together pumpkin, sugar, oil, water, & eggs for 1 min. Add remaining ingredents & bat for 1 min. Bake 60-75 min.

Eucharistic Bread
2½ c. whole wheat flour 1c. white flour 2 T. melted butter 1½ c. milk	.33 c. honey 1½ t. baking powder 2 t. salt
Mix well. Dough will be sticky. Lightly kneed & roll out into a circle about 4 inches in diameter. Place on greased cookie sheet. Bake at 450 for 12-20 minutes or until golden brown.

Shell's Pizza Crust
11 oz. lukewarm water 1 t. yeast 1 T. molasses 2 t. salt	2½ T. olive oil 3¼ c. flour .33 c. wheat flour ¼ c. corn meal
Mix water, yeast, & molasses, and let it stand for 12 minutes. Add salt & oil & mix well. Add flours. Let raise for 2 hours covered in oil. Roll out onto pizza pan & brush with oil before adding toppings.

Garlic Naan
3 3/4 c. white flour 1 t. baking powder 1/4 t. salt	1 3/4 c. plain yogurt butter minced garlic
Sift the flour, baking powder, and salt into a bowl. Slwoly add as much yogurt as you need to gather the flour together an dmake a soft, resilient dough. Knead for 10 minutes and form a ball. Set aside, covered, for about 2 hours. Knead the dough again and divide into nine equal parts; keep them covered Heat a cast-iron skillit or griddle over a lowish flame. Preheat the broiler. Take one of the parts of dough and make a ball out of it. Flatten it and then roll it out on a lightly floured surface until you have a round that is about 1/8 inch thick. When the skillet is very hot, pick up the naan and slap it onto the heated surface. let it cook slowly for about 4-5 minutes. It will puff up either completely or partially. Brush the top with garlic butter. Place the entire skillet under the broiler for 1-1 1/2 min. or until the puffing-up process is compete and ther are a few reddish spots on the naan. Remove the naan with a spatuala and place in a warming dish. Repeat the process with the remaining dough balls.

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