Lightning Bread

Ingredients

• one tablespoon salt
• two tablespoons sugar
• three tablespoons shortening
• one pint boiling water
• seven medium-sized potatoes
• three pints cold water
• 2½ yeast cakes

Method

1. 1

   Stir well together one tablespoon salt, two tablespoons sugar, three tablespoons shortening, and one pint boiling water.

2. 2

   To this add seven medium-sized potatoes (boiled and mashed fine), one pint of the hot water in which they were boiled, and three pints cold water.

3. 3

   Stir in 2½ yeast cakes previously dissolved in a little water, cover with a cloth and keep warm for 10 hours; then put in a cooler place to use as needed.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The National home cook book (1900), page 3. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

two tablespoons shortening. When * 001 stir in one-half yeast cake, two quarts flour and twos tablespoons salt. Mix well and let it rise until morning. ee Then pour into pans, let it rise until light and bake one *, This makes two loaves. Bh has been soaked in warm water; when thoroughly dissolved ir i . Let stand over night; stir thoroughly next morning and dip in tins, This makes two loaves of bread, - VIRGINIA BATTER BREAD—Two eggs, one teaspoonful | of salt, one quart of sour milk, three-fourths of a teaspoon- — ful of ‘soda, one pint of cornmeal, Beat the eggs, stir the « soda in the milk till it foams, sift the salt with the meal, © ir the meal into the milk, adding the eggs. Beat hard for x“ minutes, pour into a greased china baking dish, and) -¢ in a moderately hot oven till brown. ‘. WHITE BREAD—Bread is the one thing for which 1 am ous among my acquaintances. My mother and grand= — mother before me held the premium on their bread and I use the old-fashioned method. Pes The evening before you wish to bake, boil three potatoes. When done mash well and add water in which they were boiled with enough clear water to make two-thirds of a ‘gallon. When this cools add one teaspoon salt, three table- ‘spoons sugar, with one cake yeast foam well dissolved. In the morning set aside one pint of solution, which add next — me you bake instead of one cake of yeast foam. Strain t of liquid and add flour until you have a nice sponge, L an hour or two, when the sponge has become very light, wrinkle with one large tablespoon salt, mix flour into i intil it. will knead without sticking to board. When sure nixture is well kneaded, put in greased pan until it doubles ts bulk, when it is to be gently molded into loaves. When they’ double in size they are ready for oven. _ Have always made bread a special study and believe the usual housekeeper ruins her bread in the oven. Allow bread etry saving a pint of yeast; it will give you delicious read if. you bake once or twice a week, and is less beings LIGHTNING BREAD—The yeast: Stir well tomeunen on blespoon salt, two tablespoons sugar, three tablespoon ; one pint boiling water; to this add seven medium- potatoes (boiled and mashed fine), one pint of the hot in which they were boiled, and three pints cold water; tir in 2% yeast cakes

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