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Milk Bread

1 cake compressed yeast 1 quart milk (scalded, then cooled) 3.quarts Five Roses flour (sifted) 2 tablespoons sugar 2 tablespoons lard or melted butter 1 tablespoon salt.

Dissolve the yeast and sugar in lukewarm liquid. Add 1 quarts sifted Five Roses. Beat until smooth. Cover and set to rise in a warm place about 14 hours.

When light, add lard, or butter the rest of the flour and the salt. Knead until smooth and elastic. Place in well-greased bowl. Cover and let rise again until double in bulk (about 2 hours).

Mould into loaves, place in wellgreased bread pans, filling half full. Cover and let rise again until double in bulk (about 1 hour). Bake 40 to 50 minutes.