How We Cook in Tennessee

Ingredients

• one quart of water as hot as you can bear your finger
• a cup of sweet milk
• salt

Directions

1. make into loaves, let rise and bake. It -will come up so quickly Add a little more water if needed, and stir in Dainty flour to make a soft sponge. Let it rise until light, mix stiff, let rise again, make into loaves, let rise and bake. It will come up so quickly as to surprise you. Now, when you want to bake again, save your potato water as before, add potatoes, sugar and salt, and at night the pint you saved before, which is called the "starter." In the morning, before adding any flour take out your "starter" again, and proceed as before. You can add half a yeast cake occasionally, and after baking ten or twelve times it is probably best to start again, otherwise it would get sour after a time. This way of baking is economical, easy and quick, and makes the best bread I ever had. — Mrs. C. H. B.

2. Light Bread. — Light bread recipe: Take a cup of sweet milk, let it come to a boil, and make a thin mush of meal, and set aside in some warm place. Next morning add one quart of water as hot as you can bear your finger in; add little salt and make a stiff batter, and set in a kettle of warm water, I might say hot water, for it ought to be just so you can bear your hand in, and keep it that way, and when it has stood about an hour stir good with a spoon, and when it rises sift your flour and make a stiff dough and knead it well, and put in pan and set in a good warm place, not too hot. In the stove is a good place, but have it so you can bear your hand on it inside, and when your bread rises, handle it care- fully, as it is easy to shake down. Do not have the fire too hot when you begin to bake. Heat the stove gradually. I have used this recipe for fourteen years and always have nice light bread. — ' ' Housekeeper. ' '

3. Salt Rising Light Bread. — Let cup fresh sweet milk almost come to a boil. Thicken to consistency of mush with corn meal. I put this mush in a little glass jar which is then placed in a vessels of warm water, covered close and put in a warm place overnight. Next morning when mush is risen very light

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

Counts 2 of 3 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.