The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-10-04
HAPPY HOME BREAD.
\ RECIPE WHICH Will. PREVENT
MANY DIVORCES.
tic'rr Letter From n Lady Cores
pendent " no Knows the Imrort-
ant Part Wholesome Rrraa PLAYS
i'm the Famfl>-Eaitor~ With Good
Taste. Good Appcfitc> and coed
Manners.

You wlli please excuse this long ar.'-
Gle on bread There we're fwo EDITORS
come to our house last summer en- Al-
cycles and asked for dinner Ii was noan
and husband away. so I had no dinner
ready. They asked H. they could hsve
bread and milk. ard 1 told them yes. all
;hey wanted Well. may be editors ara
a hungry lot. but they are never rat
tererS. as / know from experience.
think they are the hest ana isrges -heart-
cd and most Sympalhctic people ne have.
II not. ] don't know how We would have
Cons through the hard times. | have a
very tender spot IN my heart for the
Ohio Farmer. Rural New Yorker. blouse
keeper and Herald and Presenter. as Well
AZ other papers and our own grand old
Observation-Disclosures is added To the list.
Bat, TO go hack 10 those editors They
praised the bread said il was the best
they ever ale. and though their dinner
consisted. only Of raspherries and cream
and bread and milk. they compelled ma
70 take whole dolIar-not n free silver
one.
| viii simply add that the lady who told
me of this bread and Yeast is over -
years old and had been married over
thirty years. and Of all the ways she had
tried this was her choice. She sells bread
FOR a living and people actually go miles
80 buy bread of her. | often bake TWO
patches . day. as /. too, sometimes bake
for others.
The following way OF making bread is
especially adapted 10 this climate. and
though have tried many ways I consider
Il the best of any known.
For yeast. take TWO quarts OF mashed
potatoes right from the stove. into which
stir immediately one tea cup of flour and
one OF salt ono tables poonfui OF ginger.
Add slowly stirring the while. enough
boiling water 70 make Two gallons 90
yeast. To his mixture when luke warm
add two yeast cakes. stand IN a warm
place. and next day 1t viii he ready for
uSe. keep mine Ia a two~gsilon jar with
plate over 1t in a cool place. II does
not sour or ferment readily. because there
Is neither sugnaF nor hops in II. Half the
quantity may be made for small families.
] have kept II six weeks or more.
Now. lake one quart OF Yeast aud two
quarts or water, add no salt. as there *
Il sufficient quantity In the yeast, which
aslo keeps II from souring. Add enough
flour 10 mold into a stif loaf and set i'm
a warm place 70 rise. Set bread early in
rhe morning or any time before noon,
Il rises in few hours when 1t 10 10
he nodded into loayes ready for baking.
Bread set nj in the morning can Ia
baked by noon. There being so many
potatoes in tho yeast and such A large
HHaHAlsS OF yeast DSrtt VI a Utktff@ rOfF
away with the necessity of putting pota-
toes in the bread al the time Of making
and also keeps tho bread moist.
/ have used this recipe for three years
and never fail 10 have beautiful sweet
bread. This recipe is for six toaves o'
bread. Follow the directions and you wiil
he delighted. or course tire Wilderness %
bread depends largely on moiding ana
baking
BY experience have learned that brcar
must not get too ligh, before being pat
into the oven and that the oven must he
al the right heat or the bread will he
ruined no matter how good Il is. A loaf
Of bread should rise lust twicc It's orig
inal size. and the oven he hot and the
stove full of wooe OF coal when bread IL
put I'm. After that the fire should burn
more slowly or gradually die down uufii
the bread is done, which Should ~ IN an
hour or Jess, according 10 size or io,ves
! have given minute directions because
I believe fun one-thiri ~ tho divorces Of
cur country come through bad cooking
and II woman can do nothing else in
the cooking l.ne we'll she should make
good breasi MABEL II. MnNSk.Y.