Take bread sponge ready to mould into loaves, put it on a plate and set it away to rise for about 4 or 5 hrs., then add 1 cup bread dough, 1/2 cup sugar, lard the size of an egg, 1 beaten egg, 1 cup lukewarm water, and let rise about 3 hrs. more; make into buns and let rise 9 hours more. Bake in a slow oven. The bread is usually moulded in loaves about 10 in the morning. About 4 the cup of dough is light, then at 9 at night make into buns and bake in the morning for breakfast. - Mrs. C. E. Westing-hous, Mayfair, 111.

Variation I

At noon mix together 3 mashed potatoes, 1 teaspoon coffee sugar, 1 tablespoon flour, scald with 1 cup boiling water; when cool add 1/3 yeast cake, which has been dissolved in 1/4 cup warm water. Let stand till night, then take 1 pt. sweet milk, 1 cup sugar, butter size of an egg, scald together and let cool. Then stir in yeast and flour enough to make a stiff batter; let rise until morning. In the morning mix down as for bread, let stand until light; mould into burns let rise. Bake 20 minutes. - Mrs. M. Anthony, Des Plaines, 111.