Dr. M'Millan's formulas and domestic guide

To make 4 or 5 loaves of bread take 3 or 4 good-sized potatoes. Wash, peel and slice up the potatoes, then rinse, and put them into i quart of clean water, and boil until quite soft. Draw off the water into a quart dish of any kind, so that the measure is just i quart. Then mash the potatoes very fine, and then pour on the water in which they were boiled, and mix well. Now add i teacupful of yeast. Stir in well, being careful that it is not hot enough to scald the yeast. Add i teaspoonful salt and one-half tea-spoonful soda, and sift in flour enough to make it the consistence of pan-cake batter. This should be done in a pan large enough to hold all the dough that is to be made in the morning. When thus prepared cover and set in the cellar. Next morning your sponge will be ready to mix. If there is any sourness about the sponge add a little more soda and salt. When the bread is mixed put it in a bread-pan to rise or get light, and then knead and mould into pans and bake about i hour. The above plan has been successful, and is extensively practiced. GRAHAM BREAD. Graham flour 5 cups. Sour milk 2 cups. Molasses two-thirds cup. Saleratus i tea-spoonful. Salt I tea-spoonful. Put the milk and molasses and salt in a pan, and then mash the saleratus and dissolve it in a little of the milk. Then stir it into the whole and immediately stir in the flour. Butter a two-quart pan and steam 2 hours. If no steamer, bake in a quick oven. Dyspeptics will find this bread or the Graham biscuits just the thing. GRAHAM BISCUITS. Proceed the same as with the bread, only it will need more flour to make it stiff enough to roll out. Butter the tin and bake directly. BEST CORN BREAD. Corn meal 2 quarts. Bread sponge i pint. Water sufficient to wet the whole. Flour ^ pint. Salt I table-spoonful. Let it rise, then knead well for the second time and place the dough in the oven and allow it to bake an hour and a half. INDIAN BREAD. Buttermilk i quart. Indian meal 4 cups. Wheat or rye flour 2 cups. Molasses i cup. Salt I tea-spoonful. Soda I tea-spoonful. Mix — The milk, molasses and salt first, then the soda dissolved in a little of it and mixed in; then the flour, and lastly the meal. Steam 3 hours or bake 2 hours. BISCUIT Flour 2 quarts. Butter 2 table-spoonfuls. Salt I tea-spoonful. Baking powder 2 tea-spoonfuls. Baking soda i tea-spoonful. Sour milk sufficient. Sift the flour and thoroughly mix in the salt and baking powder dry. In warm weather work in the butter cold, but in cold weather melt and work in. Mash and dissolve the soda in a cup with a little of the milk, then pour it into the flour, and mix, adding more milk until the flour is all wet up. Cut out and mould, place in tins, and bake in a quick oven. GEMS. Graham meal (or flour) 2 quarts. Add salt and warm water, stirring thoroughly, make a thick batter and put into hot pans and bake in a hot oven. baker's division. 215 PALMER HOUSE ROLLS. Flour I quart. Make a well in the center heaping the flour high as possible about it, pour in one-half cup of yeast. Warm milk one-half pint. White sugar i tea-spoonful. Butter I table-spoonful. Salt I tea-spoonful.