Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 297, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1912 — FOUR KINDS OF BREAD [ARTICLE]

FOUR KINDS OF BREAD

SOME VARIATIONS OF WELLCALLED "STAFF OF LIFE.” ■.. .•' / * ’jjBBS H Directions for Making Ordinary Table* Necessity—Concocted From Sour Milk or Oatmoal—Walnut Brown Bread Is Recommended. Raised . Breads—Two cakes of compressed yeast, one tablespoon salt, one pint sweet milk, a piece of lard size of an egg, quart of warm water, two tablespoons sugar. Put the yeast in one pint of warm water early In the morning, let it stand a half hour in a warm place; stir Into this mixture one and a half pints of flour; let stand about three-quarters of an hour or until full of bubbles. Add to the above one. pint of warm water, one pint of scalded milk, sugar and salt; beat together; stir in all the “raise bread flour” it will take; turn out on the bread board and cut and knead, working in the lard until smooth. Let rise until light, or about .six hours, molding in loaves with tire hands, not kneading on the board. Set to rise. When the tin is two-thirds full, brash over with melted lard; set in a hot oven, with the door open, for ten minutes; close the door and bake tor three-quarters of an hour; take out and brush over with melted butter, break apart and cool. Bour Milk Bread.—One cup of cornmeal, one teaspoon salt, one cup rye flour* one teaspoon .soda, one cup graham flour,, one-half cup molasses, one cup raisins, one pint sour milk. Mix the ingredients. Steam for three hours, then remove the cover from the crust. > Oatmeal Bread.—One quart of boiling water turned on one pint of rolled oats. Let stand until bool. The® add one-half of a yeast cake dissolved in a little water, one-half enp of molasses, one quart of entire wheat flour, one quart of sifted flour and salt to taste. Raise over night, stir down, raise again,' Btir down, drop in bread tins, raise again and bake for about 40 minutes. Walnut Brown Bread. —Two cups of graham flour, one and a half cups of white flour, two cups of sweet milk, one-half cup of brown sugar, one-half cup of molasses, one cup of walnuts chopped fine, one teaspoon of salt, one large teaspoon of soda. Beat light. Bake in one loaf for one hour.