Mom Gourley's Salt Rising Bread
"(Old Recipe)"
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Yields:
-
1 loaf
ingredients
- 1 medium potato
- 1 quart boiling water
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 2 tablespoons meal
- 1 tablespoon salt
- 1 cup milk, scalded
- 1 pint water
- 1⁄2 cup sugar
- 1⁄2 cup shortening
- 1 teaspoon salt
- to taste flour
directions
- Peel potato and slice thin.
- Add potato to the boiling water to which the 1 tablespoon sugar, meal and 1 tablespoon salt have been added.
- Keep this mixing warm overnight or until ferments and smells.
- Take out the slices of potato and add the cup of scalded milk and enough flour to make a stiff batter.
- Keep warm until it rises.
- Then add the warm water, shortening, 1 teaspoon salt and enough flour to make consistency of bread dough.
- Put in greased pan and let rise. Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes.
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