Originally Published:
Jubilee Cook Book, 1887
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Take half a coffee-cup of meal, scald with boiling sweet milk until about as thick as sweet cream, set in warm place to rise then set away in cool place. This will keep several days in cool weather. For bread take about one pint hot water, add salt, a little sugar and a pinch of soda, let it cool until it will not scald the flour, then add flour until about as thick as pancake batter. Stir in about one half of the meal yeast previously made and set in a kettle of quite warm water, keeping warm. This sponge will quickly rise. Then pour into a pan of flour, adding warm water and more salt if necessary, a tablespoonful of melted butter and sponge it, letting it rise; knead into loaves, let it rise and bake. But little kneading is necessary.