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White Bread

4 quarts flour

1 quart milk, 1 quart water - mixed and lukewarm

1 tablespoon lard

2 yeast cakes

1 scant teaspoon salt

Rub the lard and salt together in the hour; dissolve the yeast with 2 teaspoons sugar in a little luke warm water; mix this all together with the flour, milk and water. Knead 1/2 hour into firm dough; when light, knead down again; let rise again and mould into loaves, and when light bake 40 minutes in gas stove or 50 minutes in coal stove. - Miss Templeton

White Bread

For 4 loaves 5 tablespoons sugar

1 big tablespoon lard

2 tablespoons salt

31/2 quarts flour

1 cake yeast - dissolved in about 3 pints luke-warm water

Mix and rub between your hands the flour, sugar, salt and lard (takes about 10 minutes) ; stir water into mixture enough to make a stiff dough; beat with spoon for about 3 minutes. Set away where it will be warm until morning, when it is ready to put in pans. Let rise to top of pans. After putting loaves in oven turn on gas full for about 15 minutes, then turn down. Bake 1 hour.

- Mrs. J. T. J.

Batter Bread

1 cup corn-meal (white or yellow) Little butter, sugar and salt

2 eggs beaten separately

3 cups milk

2 tablespoons baking powder

Bake about 30 minutes; stirring several times while baking. - Miss M. Painter

Oatmeal Bread

2 cups oatmeal Pinch salt and flour enough to make a dough

1 quart boiling water 1 cake yeast 1 cup molasses

Four boiling water over the oatmeal, let it cool, then stir in the molasses; dissolve yeast in 1/2 cup luke warm water and add that, then the salt and flour enough to make a dough as for plain bread. Knead and set in warm place to rise over night. Make into loaves; let rise again and bake in a slow oven. - Miss Pickering

Whole Wheat Nut Bread

Scald 1 pint milk, add a piece butter size of an egg; set aside until luke warm; add 1 teaspoon salt and 1 tablespoon sugar; dissolve 1 cake yeast in a little warm milk. Mix this all together with enough white flour to make a batter. When light, add whole wheat flour and 2/3 cup English walnuts, cut up; beat well, using enough flour to make a firm dough. Mould into loaves; let rise, grease the top of loaves with melted butter and bake in moderate oven 3/4 or 1 hour. - Mrs, E. K. Harris