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Bread, Home-Made

Make a cavity in the middle of a quartern of flour, and stir into it a pint of warm milk or water, four table-spoonfuls of good yeast, and a little salt. Cover it up and set it before the fire to rise. If set overnight make up next morning, then add half a pint more milk or water, and knead it into a dough for ten minutes. Set it by the fire for one hour and a half, then make into loaves, and bake from one hour and a half to two hours, according to size. If equal quantities of meal and flour be used, this will make an excellent brown bread.