Raisin Bread

1 cake compressed yeast 1 cup lukewarm water 1 cup milk, scalded and cooled 6 cups sifted flour

3/4 cup sugar

4 level tablespoons lard

3/4 cup raisins

1 teaspoon salt

Dissolve the yeast and one tablespoon of sugar in lukewarm liquid; add two cups of flour, the lard (or butter) and sugar, well creamed; and beat until smooth. Cover and set aside to rise in a warm place, free from draft, until light - about one and one half hours. Add raisins well-floured, the rest of the flour to make a soft dough, and last the salt. Knead lightly; place in well-greased bowl; cover and let rise again until double in bulk - about one and one half hours. Mold into loaves; fill well-greased pans half full, cover and let rise until light - about one hour. Glaze with egg diluted with water, and bake forty-five minutes.

Cocoa Bread

1 cake compressed yeast

2 cups milk, scalded and cooled 1 tablespoon sugar

5 1/2 cups sifted flour

1/2 cup sugar 1/2 cup cocoa 1/4 cup butter 2 eggs

1/2 teaspoon salt

Dissolve the yeast and one tablespoon of sugar in lukewarm milk; add three cups of flour and beat until smooth. Cover and set aside to rise in warm place until light - about one and one half hours; then add butter and sugar creamed, eggs well beaten, cocoa, remainder of flour, or enough to make soft dough, and salt. Knead lightly; place in greased bowl; cover and set aside in warm place, free from draft, until double in bulk - about two hours. Mold into loaves; place in well-greased bread pans, filling them half full. Cover and let rise again until light - about one hour. Bake forty to forty-five minutes.

The recipe makes two loaves. Nuts or fruit may be added if desired. The bread may be used for making delicious sandwiches.

Buns may be made from the same dough and decorated with chocolate frosting.

Boston Brown Bread No. 1

2 cups rye meal 1 cup corn meal 1 teaspoon salt

1/3 cup molasses

1 teaspoon soda

2 cups sour milk

Dissolve the soda in the milk. Mix and sift the dry ingredients; add the sour milk and molasses; pour into a buttered mold and steam three hours. Brown in the oven twenty minutes.

Boston Brown Bread No. 2

1 cup corn meal

2 cups graham flour 1 teaspoon salt

1/2 cup sugar 1/2 cup molasses 1 1//2 teaspoons soda

2 cups milk

Mix and cook the same as Brown Bread No. 1.

Scotch Short Bread

1 cup butter

2 cups flour

1/2 cup powdered sugar

Cream the butter; add the flour and sugar; knead all together thoroughly with the hands; roll out about one inch in thickness and cut in oblong cakes. Bake about half an hour, laying the bread on brown paper in an unbuttered pan.

Coarse Loaf

1/2 cup New Orleans molasses 1/2 cup brown sugar 1/2 cup corn meal 2 cups graham flour 1 1/2 cups white flour

1 teaspoon baking powder 1 cup nuts or raisins

1 pint sour milk

2 teaspoons soda Pinch of salt

Mix all the ingredients together, adding the soda dissolved in the sour milk last. Pour into a greased baking pan and bake in a slow oven about one hour.