Easter recipes

Ok since its Easter and since in my family its just like Christmas here are some original recipes that my mom makes every year during Easter.

Portuguese Sweet Bread Recipe

Ingredients

4 cps milk
1 tsp salt
½ pound Crisco
3 packages dry yeast
5 lbs flour
½ cup warm water
12 eggs
4 cups sugar
1 lemon (zested)
Egg wash
Directions

In sauce pan combine milk salt and lard and bring to a boil
Set aside and wait
In a small bowl combine yeast with 1 cup of flour and ½ cup warm water and set aside and set aside.
In a large bowl using a wisk combine eggs sugar and lemon zest and mix thoroughly and add milk mixture, Yeast mixture and remaining flour and thoroughly combine and set aside to rise kneading 6 times every ½ hour.
Bread will take 6 hours to rise.
Prepare five round loaf pans with butter or lard.
Divide dough between pans (pans should be half full).
Knead bread and let it rise again till it reaches the top of the pan.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Brush top with beaten eggs and bake for one hour until golden brown.

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Malasadas

Ingredients

12 cup flour
2 tsp nutmeg
2 packages active dry yeast
Half cup butter or margarine
1 ½ cup sugar
2 tsp lemon extract
4 cups milk medium hot
12 eggs
Directions

Cream the butter sugar and lemon extract
Add eggs and 2 cups milk
Combine it well
Add dry ingredients
Add rest of milk gradually till dough forms workable consistency
It may need more milk
Let rise 1 to 1 ½ hours
Heat oil to 275 degrees.
Dip tablespoon in oil and scoop some dough and drop into oil. Cook and wait until dough turns over brown.
Roll dough in sugar and cool on wire rack.

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Portuguese Bean Soup

Ingredients

30 lbs Ham Hock
1 doz large mild Portuguese Sausage
1 large bag of elbow macaroni
1 doz round onions
1 dozen Russet Potatoes
3 big bunches celery
3 big bunches water cress
3 reg size bags carrots
3 bags small kidney beans
3 large heads of cabbage
1 large Sams Club bottle minced garlicDirections
Directions

Put Ham Shanks, sliced onions and minced garlic in a large cafeteria pot
Fill pot with water up to 6 inches above Ham Hock.
Boil till meat falls of the bone (4-5hrs)
Remove the skin and bones.
Put in dry small kidney beans
Boil till beans are half cooked.
Put all vegetables (stew size)
Bring to boil then turn fire off and let steep
Add cooked macaroni when time to serve soup. Keep mac separate or it will melt.