White Bread - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1/4 cup sugar
3 packages traditional yeast
6 cups very warm tap water
1 teaspoon salt (heaping)
1/2 cup oil
12 cups all-purpose flour

Preparation

In a large mixing bowl put in the sugar.
Add the water and sprinkle with the yeast.
Let stand 10 minutes.
Stir yeast mixture with a whisk.
Add salt and oil, stir again.
Gradually add flour one cup at a time, stirring with the whisk until too thick to stir.
Swich to a wooden spoon until dough comes away from the sides of the bowl.
Turn onto a floured surface and knead for 8 minutes while adding remaining flour.
Spray an extra large bowl with vegetable spray.
Place dough in the bowl.
Spray dough with the vegetable spray.
Cover with a towel and let rise in a warm place 1 1/4 hours.
Punch down dough, turn out onto floured surface and cut into 5 pieces.
Make each piece into a ball.
Spray 5 loaf pans with vegetable spray.
Shape dough balls into loaves, place in the pans.
Cover with a towel in a warm place for 1 hour.
Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
Place loaves in oven and bake for 35- 40 minutes.
Cool on wire rack.