Loaf Bread

Instructions

• 4 loaves of bread
• 3 quarts of flour
• 1 teaspoon of salt
• 1 tablespoon of sugar
• 1 tablespoon of lard
• 3/4 cup of milk
• Small yeast cake

Directions

1. Dissolve in hot water 3 quarts of flour, 1 teaspoon of salt, 1 tablespoon of sugar, and 1 tablespoon of lard.
2. Put 3/4 cup of milk and a small yeast cake and soak it for half an hour in 1 tablespoon of tepid water.
3. Stir all together until the spoon you stir with can stand straight up.
4. Let it rise over night.
5. Knead out the yeast and put it in the pan half full so it can rise.  It will rise to the edge in an hour or so.
6. Bake in the oven at 300 degrees for about an hour and a half.

Source — Cooking in Old Créole Days

Prepared by Brooke Lolley

Louisiana Anthology 

July 12, 2017