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Easy Recipe for Beginners (Over Night)

Take a quart sealer. Put in 1 yeast cake, 2 tablespoons sugar and the water drained from the potatoes cooked at dinner-time (allowed to get lukewarm).

Keep in a warm place to ferment. It will be ready for use in 5 or 6 hours. I then get about 5 lbs. or more of Five Roses flour and ½ tablespoon salt. Mix thoroughly. Then pour off the liquid in the sealer into the middle of the flour with as much warm water as it will take (a pint or more) to mix into a dough so that it does not stick to the hands. Allow to rise overnight.

In the morning, mould into loaves.

Allow to rise again an hour or more. Bake as usual. This is an easy recipe for beginners, and a good one when made with Five Roses flour.

Note-The sediment in the sealer can be used for any length of time. It is called a starter." Put 2 tablespoons sugar and the lukewarm potato water, and add a yeast cake occasionally.