Raisin Bread

== Ingredients ==
* ½ cup sugar
* 3 cups warm water
* 1 tbsp salt
* 2 tbsp yeast
* 3 tbsp shortening
* 5-6 cups flour
* 1 egg
* ½ cup raisins
== Directions ==
# Dissolve yeast into ½ cup warm water.
# Let stand in a warm place for about 10 minutes.
# Beat in the sugar, salt, shortening, egg, raisins, and the rest of the water.
# Sift the flour and begin mixing it into the rest of the ingredients.
# Knead, shape and allow bread mixture to rise in oiled bowl until it has doubled in size.
# Punch down and allow mixture to rise again in the baking pan.
# To bake, place loaf in a cold oven.
# Turn the heat to 400°F.
# After 15 minutes, reduce heat to 375 degrees and bake 25 minutes more.
# Remove the loaf at once from the pan and cool on a rack before storing.
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