Old Fashioned Corn Light Bread

Ingredients

• Make three cups mush
• half teaspoon salt
• one tablespoon melted lard
• one cup sweet milk
• one cup meal
• one cup Dainty flour
• heaping tablespoon sugar
• half teaspoon salt

Method

1. 1

   Make mush and let it cool (not cold).

2. 2

   Stir in meal until thicker than egg bread.

3. 3

   Set in a warm place to rise.

4. 4

   When it rises, stir in sweet milk, meal, Dainty flour, sugar, and salt.

5. 5

   Put in a warm, well-greased pan, let rise, and bake.

6. 6

   When done, roll in a cloth of several thicknesses to keep soft.

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.

Old Fashioned Corn Light Bread. — Make three cups mush; add half teaspoon salt, one tablespoon melted lard; when cool (not cold) stir in meal till thicker than egg bread. Set in warm place to rise ; when it rises stir in one cup sweet milk, one cup meal, one cup Dainty flour, heaping tablespoon sugar

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