This section is from the "The Home Science Cook Book" book, by Mary J. Lincoln and Anna Barrows. Also available from Amazon: The home science cook book.
Mix one cup of warm milk, one tablespoon of butter, one teaspoon of sugar, one half teaspoon of salt, one-fourth yeast cake, and one cup of flour. Let it rise over night; in the morning add one egg, yolk and white beaten separately.
Buckwheat flour, or half corn-meal and half white flour, may be used in the same way.
 
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