Federal Bread

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 pounds of flour
• 1 pint of sweet milk
• 2 ounces of butter
• 3 eggs
• 1/2 yeast cake (Fleischman)
• 1 tablespoon of sugar
• 1 saltspoon of salt

Method

1. 1

   Heat the milk warm enough to melt the butter.

2. 2

   Put the flour in a bowl, make a hole in the middle and pour in the milk and other ingredients.

3. 3

   When well mixed, pour into a well greased pan and set away to rise.

4. 4

   When light, bake in a moderate oven one hour.

5. 5

   Split open, butter and eat hot.

6. 6

   Set at night for breakfast and at noon for tea.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Historic Paxton, her days and her ways, 1722-1913 (1913) by Helen Bruce Wallace, page 55. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Federal Bread (Mrs. J. E. Butherford.) li/o pounds of flour. 1 pint of sweet milk. 2 ounces of butter. 3 eggs. % yeast cake (Fleischman). 1 tablespoon of sugar. 1 saltspoon of salt

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