Coffee Bread

Ingredients

• one cake of never failing yeast
• a little more than one quart warm water
• one spoonful of sugar
• one cup butter
• one cup lard
• two cups sugar
• three eggs
• one tablespoon salt

Method

1. 1

   Dissolve yeast in warm water.

2. 2

   Add sugar and a little salt, then enough Dainty flour to make a stiff batter.

3. 3

   Set in a warm place till night.

4. 4

   Beat in eggs, sugar, butter, lard, and salt into the batter.

5. 5

   Work in enough flour to make a smooth dough.

6. 6

   Put in a well-greased vessel and let rise overnight.

7. 7

   In the morning, work it down, make into six loaves, grease with butter and lard mixed, and let rise again.

8. 8

   Sprinkle sugar and cinnamon over the top and bake in a very slow oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from How we cook in Tennessee .. (1906) by Jackson (Tenn.). First Baptist Church. The Silver Thimble Society., page 68. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Coffee Bread. — At noon dissolve one cake of never failing yeast in a little more than one quart warm water. Add one spoonful of sugar and a little salt, and Dainty flour enough to make stiff batter. Set in warm place till night. About eight or nine o'clock beat in three eggs to the batter, two cups sugar, one cup butter, one cup lard, one tablespoon salt

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