Salt Rising Bread

Ingredients

• 6 heaping tea-spoonfuls into a coffee cup
• a tea-spoon of sugar
• I salt-spoon of salt
• half a salt-spoon of soda
• 1 quart boiling water for 3 loaves

Method

1. 1

   Mix thoroughly and pour boiling water in the mixture, stirring it well together until it nearly fills the cup.

2. 2

   Remove the spoon, cover the cup of dough, and set it where it will keep warm but not scald.

3. 3

   Set it Friday morning and it will be light for Saturday's baking.

4. 4

   Now put in a bread pan flour enough for bread, add salt, and turn into the middle of your flour, stirring in slowly.

5. 5

   Put enough cold water or milk to cool sufficiently to bear your fingers in it, and then add middlings.

6. 6

   Stir in well, cover with some of the flour, and set in a warm place.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Dr. M'Millan's formulas and domestic guide (1882) by M'Millan, Alexander M. D., page 103. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SALT RISING BREAD. Take newly ground middlings, put 6 heaping tea-spoonfuls into a coffee cup, add a tea-spoon of sugar, I salt-spoon of salt, half a salt-spoon of soda. Mix thoroughly and pour boiling water in the mixture, stirring it well together until it will nearly fill the cup. Remove the spoon, cover the •cup of dough, and set it where it will keep warm but not scald. Set it Friday morning and it will be light tor Saturday's baking. If in a hurry set in a dish of warm water. Now put in a bread pan flour enough for bread. Add salt, and take I quart boiling water for 3 loaves

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