Mush Bread

Ingredients

• one cup of flour
• four tablespoons salt
• water enough to make a soft paste

Method

1. 1

   Mix flour and salt, then add water to make a paste.

2. 2

   Use with mashed potatoes and yeast to make bread.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The National home cook book (1900), page 2. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.