Wheat Bread

Ingredients

• three potatoes
• a yeast-cake
• two teaspoonfuls of salt
• water enough for two loaves of bread
• half a teaspoonful of soda
• butter the size of a walnut

Method

1. 1

   Boil or bake the potatoes and mash fine.

2. 2

   Soak the yeast-cake and add to the potatoes when cool.

3. 3

   Add salt and let it stand for 3-4 hours.

4. 4

   Stir in water and flour until stiff, let it stand overnight.

5. 5

   In the morning, add dissolved soda and butter, knead thoroughly, let it rise, and put in pans to rise again until doubled.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The hearthstone; or, Life at home (1883) by Laura C. Holloway, page 336. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Wheat Bread. — Boil or bake three potatoes and mash fine. Soak a yeast-cake and add to the potatoes when cool enough. Add two teaspoonfuls of salt; let it stand three or four hours; then add water enough for two loaves of bread. Stir in flour until very stiff; let it stand over night. In the morning add half a teaspoonful of soda dissolved in water, and butter the size of a walnut

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