Red Belly Bread

Ingredients

• 2 coconuts
• 2 cups sugar
• 4 cups water
• red food coloring, enough to get the shade of red that you want (it takes a LOT of food colouring to get it to be the deep red that I personally like)
• 1 1/2 tablespoons tenderflake shortening
• 1 cup milk
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 1 package fleishmann yeast
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• 1/2 cup water
• 5 cups flour
• 1 1/2 cups water
• 1 cup flour, for rolling purposes