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White Bread

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Ingredients

  • 5 cups water
  • 1 heaping tablespoon salt
  • 1/4 cup white sugar
  • 4 tablespoons lard
  • 1/2 cup water
  • 1 teaspoon sugar
  • 1 heaping tablespoon yeast
  • ginger and vinegar (amounts and use not specified)

Directions

  1. Soak the yeast mixture for 5 minutes and mix.

Notes

  • The source gives no flour quantity, kneading or rising method, oven temperature, or baking time.
  • The parenthetical “ginger & vinegar” is not clearly connected to a quantity or instruction.
Read the transcription as written
WHITE BREAD
5 cups water
1 heaping tbsp. salt
¼ cup wh. sugar
4 tbsp. lard
½ cup water
1 teas sugar
1 heaping tbsp. yeast
(ginger & vinegar)
soak for 5 min & mix