Mrs.L.Wayne’s Bread Receipt

Ingredients

• One half yeast cake (whole cake in cold weather)
• One half cup cold water
• One quart lukewarm water
• One tablespoon white sugar
• One half cup lard
• One tablespoon salt
• Flour for thickness (optional)

Directions

1. Dissolve yeast cake in cold water. 
2. Add dissolved yeast cake water to lukewarm water, white sugar, lard and salt
3. Beat hard with hand: add flour to make thick dough (use gallon tin bucket with tight fitting cover). 
4. When dough has risen to the top, add flour to make dough stiff. 
5. In bucket, knead on board for fifteen minutes, using as little flour as possible. 
6. Keeping dough soft, make in loaves and cover. 
7. Once the dough has risen to the top, bake in moderately hot oven.

Source — https://louisiana-anthology.org/texts/walmsley/walmsley--creole_cookery.html#CwalmsleyN392 

Prepared by Emma Allen
Louisiana Anthology
January 29,2024