Fine Bread Recipe

3 small potatoes

1 tablespoon lard

2 handfuls salt

1 handful sugar



Soak the magic yeast cake in a little luke warm water. Add a little

flour to this, and let it stand an hour. Boil the potatoes in 2 quarts

water: when soft put through sieve and then set aside to cool in the

potato water. Add to this the lard, salt and sugar.



About 4 in the afternoon put the liquid in large bread riser. Add about

3 quarts of flour, beat thoroughly for at least 10 minutes; now add

dissolved yeast to it; let sponge rise until going to bed and then

stiffen. Knead until dough does not stick to the hands about 20 to 25

minutes. It will double in size. In morning put in bread pans and let

rise one hour or more. Bake in moderately hot oven one hour.



Many persons prefer stiffening the bread in the morning. In this case

set the sponge later in the evening and allow it to rise all night,

stiffening with the flour in the morning instead of the evening. Of

course this allows the baking to be rather late in the day.



MRS. MEDILL MCCORMICK.

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