6 potatoes, boiled and mashed fine while hot.
6 tablespoonfuls baker’s yeast.
2 tablespoonfuls white sugar.
2 tablespoonfuls lard.
1 even teaspoonful soda.
1 quart warm—_not_ hot—water.
3 cups flour.
Mash the potatoes, and work in the lard and sugar. Stir to a cream,
mixing in gradually a quart of the water in which the potatoes were
boiled, which should have been poured out to cool down to blood warmth.
_Beat_ in the flour, already wet up with a little potato-water to
prevent lumping, then the yeast, lastly the soda. Cover lightly if the
weather is warm, more closely in winter, and set to rise over night in
a warm place.