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2. Bread Raised Twice. Measure out 4 quarts of flour take out about 1 cupful and
put the remainder into a pan. Make a depression in the middle, into which put 1
tablespoonful of sugar, 1 tablespoonful of salt and 1 cupful of yeast; then mix
in 1 pint of milk which was made lukewarm by adding 1 pint of warm water. Beat
well with a strong spoon, and knead for 20-30 minutes; let it raise over night;
in the morning knead again, mould into loaves, let them raise until about twice
their size, and bake not quite 1 hour.
3. Salt-Raising Bread. Prepare the leaven in the following manner: Put 1 pint of
lukewarm water into a bowl, and stir up a thick batter, adding only a
teaspoonful of salt; beat the batter thoroughly, set in a pan of warm water and
keep warm, and in 2-4 hours it will begin to raise. When it is nearly light
enough, take 1 pint of milk and a pint of boiling water, mix the sponge in a
bread pan, and when cooled about luke warm stir in the leaven. The sponge will
be light in about 2-4 hours if kept warm. The dough does not require as much
kneading as yeast-raised dough. Bread made in this way should be made oftener,
as it dries more quickly than bread made with potatoes . Some people object to
it because of the odor in raising, which is the result of acetous fermentation,
but the more of that the more sure you are of having sweet bread when raised.
4. Raw Potato Yeast. Peel 3 large potatoes and lay them into cold water. Then
grate one potato in a large dish, pour over it at once one pint of boiling water
to cook the potato. Grate the next potato, and pour on another pint of water,
then grate the third, and over this also pour 1 pint of boiling water. Do not
grate them all at once as the potato will turn dark. Stir quickly with a silver
spoon, adding salt and about 1/2 cupful of sugar. When it is lukewarm stir in 1
cupful of yeast. When light it will be covered with a thick foam. This yeast
makes delicious bread.
5. Brown Bread. 2 1/2 cupfuls of sour milk, and 1/2 cupful of molasses; put into
this 1 heaping teaspoonful of soda, 2 cupfuls of cornmeal, 1 cupful of graham
flour, and 1 teaspoonful of salt. Steam 3 hours and after wards brown in the
oven.
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