Name: Sweet Bread Dough
Ingredients: 1 cup yeast sponge; 1½ cups sugar; 2 tablespoons shortening

Sweet Bread Dough

Ingredients

1 cup yeast sponge
1½ cups sugar
2 tablespoons shortening

Directions

In a large bowl, combine 1 cup of yeast sponge and 1½ cups of sugar.
Add 2 tablespoons of shortening to the mixture.
Mix until well combined and smooth.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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Sweet Bread Dough