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Nut Bread

A historical recipe from Cook book of tested receipes, by Ida Lee Cary (1920).

A historical recipe

Cook book of tested receipes, by Ida Lee Cary (1920). Project Gutenberg eBook #68983.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Source Public domain in the USA
Credit

From Cook book of tested receipes, by Ida Lee Cary (1920). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #68983 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68983). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

What was changed: As printed, from the book's text; Project Gutenberg's header and licence removed. Ingredient lines were read out of the text by a program. A historical recipe, not current advice.

Ingredients

Method

  1. Dissolve yeast in a little warm water, take 2 cups of milk scalded and cooled, then add 1 large tablespoon of lard or butter ¹⁄₂ cup of sugar, 1 cup of chopped walnut, 1 teaspoon of salt, add 6 cups of flour or more, to make a stiff dough and set to rise over night, in the morning when light, knead and put in pans to rise again and when light bake in a hot oven.

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