Lowney’s – Milk Bread

Ingredients

• 2 cups scalded milk (480ml)
• 1 tablespoon lard
• 1 tablespoon butter (14g)
• 2 teaspoons salt
• ½ cup yeast, or ½ yeast cake (approx. 10g dried active yeast)
• 6 cups flour (approx. 720g)
• 1 tablespoon sugar

Method

1. Put butter, lard, sugar and salt in mixing bowl. Add scalded milk.
2. Dissolve yeast cake in one fourth cup lukewarm water. Add to milk mixture when lukewarm.
3. Add flour, knead until smooth.
4. Cover tightly and let rise until double its bulk, in temperature of sixty-eight degrees.
5. Knead; shape into loaves or biscuit; let rise in pans until double its bulk.
6. Bake in hot oven: biscuit twenty to thirty minutes, loaves sixty minutes.
7. This bread may be made without kneading by omitting one cup flour and beating ten minutes.

Title

Lowney’s Cook Book

Author

Maria Willet Howard