1 pkg. active dry yeast
\n1 1\/4 c. warm water
\n1 1\/2 t. salt
\n1 T. shortening
\n3 1\/2 -4 c. flour or unbleached flour
\n1 T. cornmeal
\nCold water
\n1 egg white
\n2 T. cold water
\nDissolve yeast in warm water in large mixing bowl.\u00a0 Stir in salt, shortening and 1\/2 c. of the flour.\u00a0 beat with spoon until smooth.\u00a0 Stir in enough remaining flour to make dough easy to handle.\u00a0 Turn dough onto lightly floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic, about 5 minutes.\u00a0 Place in greased bowl; turn greased side up.\u00a0 Cover with damp cloth; let rise in warm place until double, 1 1\/2-2 hours.
\nPunch down dough; round up and let rise until almost double about 45 minutes.\u00a0 Punch down; cover and let rest 15 minutes.\u00a0 Lightly grease cookie sheet; sprinkle with cornmeal.\u00a0 Roll dough into rectangle, 15×10 inches.\u00a0 Roll up tightly, beginning at one of the long sides.\u00a0 Pinch edge to seal, roll gently back and forth to taper ends.\u00a0 Place loaf on baking sheet.\u00a0 Make 1\/4″ slashes across log at 2″ intervals or make one slash lengthwise.\u00a0 Brush top of loaf with cold water.\u00a0 Let rise uncovered about 1 1\/2 hours.\u00a0 Brush with cold water.\u00a0 Heat oven to 375 degrees.\u00a0 Bake 20 minutes.\u00a0 Beat egg white and 2 T. water slightly; brush over loaf.\u00a0 Bake 25 minutes longer.\u00a0 Remove from cookie sheet; cool on wire rack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
1 pkg. active dry yeast 1 1\/4 c. warm water 1 1\/2 t. salt 1 T. shortening 3 1\/2 -4 c. flour or unbleached flour 1 T. cornmeal Cold water 1 egg white 2 T. cold water Dissolve yeast in warm water in large mixing bowl.\u00a0 Stir in salt, shortening and 1\/2 c. of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wesselbest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wesselbest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wesselbest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wesselbest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wesselbest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/wesselbest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wesselbest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wesselbest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wesselbest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}