Use Fleischmann's compressed yeast cakes if you can get them, especially in making bread for the sick. If this is out of the question, use as next choice good homemade yeast.

Grate four good-sized potatoes into one quart of boiling water, cook and stir over the fire for five minutes; when cool add two tablespoonfuls of salt, a half cupful of sugar, a half cupful of homemade yeast or one compressed yeast cake dissolved in a half cupful of cool water. Put this in a good-sized stone or glass jar, cover with a saucer and stand in a warm place (68° Fahr.) for several hours. Each time the mixture comes to the top of the jar stir it down, and keep stirring it down until fermentation stops. Bottle, cork with a cotton plug and keep in a cold place.

One cupful of this yeast will make three one-pound loaves of bread.