For about 60 split rolls.

3 large cups milk. 1 large cup yeast.

1 ounce salt. (A heaping tablespoon.)

2 ounces sugar.

2 ounces lard or butter.

4 pounds flour - 16 cups.

Strain the yeast and the water into a pan and mix in half the flour. Beat the batter thus made thoroughly. Scrape down the sides of the pan. Pour a spoonful of melted lard on top and spread it with the back of the fingers. This is to prevent a crust from forming on top. Cover with a cloth and set the sponge in a moderately warm place to rise 4 or 5 hours.

This having been commenced at about 8 in the morning beat it again about one, add the salt and make up stiff dough with the rest of the flour. Knead the dough on the table, alternately drawing it up in round shape and pressing the pulled-over edges into the middle and then pressing it out to a flat sheet, folding over and pressing out again.

Brush the clean scraped pan over with the least touch of melted lard or butter - which prevents sticking and waste of dough - place the dough in and brush that over, too. Where economy reigns the strictest a little warm water in a cup, and teaspoonful of lard melted in it will do for this brushing over and insures the truest saving and smoothest bread. Let the dough rise till 4.

At about 4 o'clock spread the dough on the table by pressing out with the knuckles till it is a thin uneven sheet. Double it over on itself and press the two edges together all around first. This imprisons air in the knuckle holes in large masses. Then pound and press the dough with the fists till it has become a thin sheet again, with the inclosed air distributed in bubbles all through it. Fold over and repeat this process several times. Then roll it up. Let it stand a few minutes before making into rolls. Persons in practice find it quickest to pull off pieces of dough of right size and mould them up instantly. Others cut off strips of dough, roll them in extended lengths and cut these up in roll sizes. Mould them up round with no flour on the hoard and only a dust on the hands, and place them in regular rows on the table - the smoothest side down. Take a little rolling pin - it looks like a piece of new broom handle - and roll a depression across the middle of each. Brush these over with the least possible melted lard or butter, using a tin-bound varnish brush for that purpose. Double the rolls, the two buttered sides together, and place them in the pans diagon illy, with plenty of room so they will not touch. Brush over the tops of the rolls in the pans with the least possible melted lard again and set them to rise about an hour - less or more according to the temperature. Bake in a hot oven, about 10 minutes. Brush over with clear water when done.

Cost of material - flour 14, yeast 3, milk 6, sugar 2, lard 6; 31 cents for 4 or 5 dozen, according to size or 6c per dozen. They sell 2 or 3 for 5c with a chip of butter added - about 1/2 oz, 1 cent.