Pan de Muerto ~ Day of the Dead Bread

Ingredients1½ cups Flour

 ½ cups Sugar

1t Salt

2 Packets Dry Yeast

1t Anis Seed

½ cup Milk½ cup Water½ cup Butter4  Eggs

4½ cups Flour

• Mix all dry ingredients together except the 4 1/2 cups of flour

• In a small pan, heat the milk, the water, and the butter. Add the liquid mixture to the dry mixture.

• Beat well.

• Mix in the eggs and the first 1 1/2 cups of flour. Beat.

• Little by little add in the rest of the flour.

• Knead the mixture on a floured board for 10 minutes.

• Put the dough in a greased bowl and allow it to rise until it has doubled in size.

• Punch the dough down and reshape. On top put some strips of dough simulating bones, and a little ball (tear).

• Let it rise another hour.

• Bake at 350° F  for about 40 minute