Everlasting Bread

Ingredients

• One cup milk, scalded and cooled
• one cup mashed Irish potatoes
• one cup melted lard
• three-fourths cup sugar
• one yeast cake softened in one-half cup water
• two teaspoons baking powder
• one teaspoon soda
• five teaspoons salt
• Flour to make a soft sponge.

Method

1. 1

   Combine scalded milk, mashed potatoes, melted lard, sugar, softened yeast, baking powder, soda, and salt.

2. 2

   Add flour to make a soft sponge, let rise until bubbly, then make stiff dough and refrigerate.

3. 3

   This sponge can be kept for four or five days.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Dainty recipes (1950) by N.C.). Circle Five St. Peter's Episcopal Church (Charlotte, page 3. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

EVERLASTING BREAD One cup milk, scalded and cooled ; one cup mashed Irish pota- toes; one cup melted lard; three-fourths cup sugar; one yeast cake softened in one-half cup water; two teaspoons baking powder ; one teaspoon soda; five teaspoons salt. Flour to make a soft sponge.

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