Easter ShmEaster and Dennis' Bread Recipe

here's an idea: use a ruler to scrape the extra flour from the counter! 

Happy Easter weekend!  The church sign down the street says: "Easter: the Rest of the Christmas Story" which made me think about how much I enjoy all these lovely Christianity-inspired STAT holidays that we get. So then I was thinking that us non-Christians should maybe lay off on the whole it is 'Happy Holidays' not 'Merry Christmas' because we-want-to-be-inclusive-thing that we freak out about every year and just enjoy the days off. What I find interesting is that because we don't believe in JC, we had to make the holidays about something else, right? Hmm...what else would our capitalist western (blah blah blah) society decide the holidays should be about? Of course we chose shopping and meat! These are our favourite two things.  It just makes sense. But I would like to say that the holidays (choose one, its all the same) are about more than just gifts, candy, food, meat, booze, and family. They are all about indulging in all of these things until we are ill. All we really want is to eat lots, drink lots, buy lots, lots lots lots and thankfully the year is peppered with Christian holidays to allow us to not feel too guilty about it all. So, while you are enjoying your day(s) off this weekend, lay off the Christians. Without them, you'd be at work.

In the spirit of indulgence I'd like to share a little ol' bread recipe that was given to me by a co-worker whose son makes this bread by the bag full (seriously!) at a work camp in Fort Smith, North West Territories then sells out when he makes it for local Canada Day celebrations. Not that it is hard to sell white bread to anyone (ahem, PG supports 2 -!!!- fry bread makers at our outdoor farmer's market)
This recipe make a lot of loaves so either invite the neighbourhood, split it, or clear out your freezer! It would be perfect for Easter family celebrations because white bread is exactly what Easter is all about?!  Just so you know, I'm sharing this recipe verbatim and sadly, I've never tried it. It sounds like candy compared to my regular recipes and I don't have an unscented garbage bag (ha!). This is man-baking at it's best (sorry guys!). Read on!

Dennis's Bread Recipe
From Fort Smith N.W.T

12 cups luke warm water
3/4 cup oil
1 1/2 tbsp salt
6 tbsp Fleishmann's instant yeast Quick rise
1/2 cup white sugar
18 cups of flour

Mix all together, put out on a floured board kneed until smooth,
Oil a large bowl place dough in bowl, cover with plastic wrap
put bowl in a large unscented garbage bag and loosely close.
Place on the counter until it has doubled in size. Punch down
form into rolls or loaves rise again until double 30-40 min.
Bake 375 until golden.
25 min. when you tap the bottom of the loaf and it sounds
hollow it's done.

[Please make sure you use an unscented garbage bag because you wouldn't want to poison yourself. wtf?!]