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Zwieback

2 eggs 1/4 cup melted lard 23/4 cups sifted flour 1/2 cup milk, scalded and cooled 2 tablespoons sugar 1/2 teaspoon salt Dissolve the yeast and sugar in the lukewarm milk. Add three fourths of a cup of flour and beat thoroughly. Cover and set aside in a moderately warm place to rise for fifty minutes. Add lard (or butter), eggs well beaten, enough flour to make a dough-about two cups and salt. Knead; shape into two rolls one and one half inches thick, and fifteen inches long. Protect from draft and let rise until light, which should be in about one and one half hours. Bake twelve minutes in a hot oven. When cool cut diagonally into half-inch slices. Place on baking sheet and brown in a moderate oven.