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Hop Yeast Potato Bread. Another lady writer says: " I would like some of the ladies to try my way of making hop yeast bread. Set a sponge at night and be sure to put in a dozen good-sized potatoes. In the morning put half a tea-spoonful of grated alum in half a teacupful of water and add to the sponge. Mix quite hard in the pan and let stand till light; then mix down in
the pan once more before putting in the tins. It makes the puffiest bread you ever saw. "
Remarks. —Much has been said against the use of alum in making bread but in the quantity here given for a batch of 3 or 4 loaves, the author would have no fears of using. It gives an
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