Homemade Sweet breads?

Question

Looking for bread recipies to give away at the holidays. Each year I make banana and cranberry orange but would like a few other recipies. Something that wows your friends and they ask for and look forward to each year. Thanks.

Yes Sweetbreads are an animal product....Sweet Breads are breads that are sweet. So sorry I insulted your perfect mind. I didnt ask to be put down by you.

Answer 1

Hey buddy,

Pay no heed to the noobies down there. I'm an artisan bread baker and I got a great recipe for you! It's a french bread called Brioche. It's very similar to a challah bread however it's richer in my opinion. This bread is absolutely fantastic cut into large slices and used to make french toast with or other things like bread pudding.

NGREDIENTS

* 1/3 cup warm half and half (110 degrees F/45 degrees C)
* 3 eggs
* 2 egg yolks
* 3/4 cup butter, softened
* 3 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
* 1/4 cup white sugar
* 1/2 teaspoon active dry yeast
DIRECTIONS

1. Combine milk, sugar and yeast together and allow to sit for 10 minutes.
2. add eggs and flour and mix well, slowly work in butter.
3. Allow to rest until doubled. about 2 hours.
4. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F
5. Turn finished dough out onto a lightly floured board and knead 5 to 10 times. Separate into 2 pieces. and place on the bottom of a bread pan and allow to rise until the dough reaches the top of the pan
6. Bake at 350 degrees for about 20 to 30 minutes

Answer 2

hey toymama, i am thinking you are wanting quick bread recipes? the one i am going to give you is my pro recipe reduced for you aand is very seasonal, pumpkin and it is super!
pumpkin quick bread
11/2 cups white sugar
2 sticks butter
1 8 oz pk. creamcheese
cream the frist 3 ingredence togather 1 st. speed for 1 min. then go to med. for 4 more min. till creamed well. scrape down,
1 15oz can of pumpkin puree, add to above, and again start in speed 1 for 1 min. then 3 more min. speed 2,scrape down bowl
4 eggs stay in speed 1 add one egg at a time letting each incorperate till mixture is smooth, when all are in mix 3 more min. speed 1
in separate bowl add the following
3 cups a.p. flour
1/2tsp salt
1tsp nutmeg
11/2 tsp cinamon ground
11/2 baking soda
add the following to the sugar mixture and mix in speed 1 for 3 min.
1 cup walnut chopped add to above ,and mix speed 1 , 3more min.
in a pre heated 350 degree oven. this should make two regular 9 by 5 loaf pans 3/4 full or 6 mini loaf pans.
bake in the center of your oven 30 to 35 min. or till done top of loaf should feel firm to the touch not soft ,don't under bake. because of the amount of fat between the butter and the creamcheese it is hard to over bake, but it is also while this is so good with a tender grain and great taste. i hope if you try it you will love it. good luck and good baking. bacondebaker

Answer 3

I'M NOT KIDDING!!!
Sweetbreads are internal organs from animals...That would make a strange holiday food gift....
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_055a.html

There are two kinds of sweetbreads: stomach sweetbreads (also known as heart or belly sweetbreads), which are an animal's pancreas, and neck (AKA throat or gullet) sweetbreads, an animal's thymus gland. (The animal in question can be a hog or calf or just about any other large mammal, I gather.) They're called sweetbreads for the obvious reason that if you called them thymus glands or whatever you couldn't give the damn things away. The art of euphemism goes back a long way.

Answer 4

Charc, I thought the same thing! Sweetbreads are the thymus gland or pancreas of a lamb or calf. And you got thumbs down for being right!
I understand the question--it was asked the wrong way. Look for a recipe for stollen, one that doesn't use yeast. That's a very nice German fruitcake.