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Home-Made Bread

Mash four medium-sized, well boiled potatoes in an earthen bowl, four tablespoonfuls of flour, one-half teaspoonful salt, one teaspoonful of sugar, pour over it, stirring meanwhile, a quart of boiling water. Set the mixture aside until it gets luke warm, then pour into it half a teacupful of liquid yeast; stir well, cover closely and let stand till light. When it is perfectly light and foamy, which will be in about five hours if kept at the proper temperature, add a half pint of warm sweet milk. Stir in sifted flour until a dough is formed sufficiently stiff to be turned from the mixing bowl to the molding board in a mass; then proceed to knead well, adding flour until it ceases to stick to the fingers or the molding board. At the end of that time form into loaves or rolls; put into greased pans, brush the surface with melted butter and again set to rise for an hour, or bread should be put to bake as soon as it is light enough.