Oatmeal-Honey Bread

I don't know about you all, but for me when the weather turns cool, I run back into my kitchen, hug my hot oven, tell it how much I missed it over the summer and I start baking again! I love to bake. I used to bake with my grandmothers...sometimes I would just hide in the pantry and eat their candy sprinkles...but mostly I liked to bake with them! I love this bread recipe that I tried for the first time last night because it doesn't require hours or kneading and rising. It does call for Irish Oats (Girls, this is not your instant Quaker Oat stuff), and you have to let them soak in HOT milk for two hours to soften them, but it is a great bread, makes a lot and takes very little work! I threw everything in my KitchenAid mixer and let it do the work. You don't even have to knead this bread! I just made mine into 2 large loaf shapes and then placed each on a separate baking sheet. And, of course, you know that anything is made better slathered in butter! It would be great to take to a friend or with a big bowl of hot soup! Enjoy!

Oatmeal-Honey Bread
Ingredients:
2 cups of boiling milk
1 cup of oats (not instant)
2 teaspoons of salt
1 egg
1/2 cup of honey
4 tablespoons of shortening (I used Canola Oil and it worked fin)
5-5 1/2 cups of flour
2 packets of yeast
1/2 cup of warm water

Method:
1. Add oatmeal to hot milk and let stand for two hours.
2. Dissolve yeast in warm water.
3. Mix yeast and other ingredients with oatmeal (start with five cups of flour and add more a little bit at a time until dough is smooth).
4. Form into loaves, and either fill two loaf pans or place in balls on a parchment-paper lined sheet.
5. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled in size (about an hour).
6. Bake at 350 degrees for 40 to 45 minutes.
Butter the tops when they come out of the oven.