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A. Varesano inter. Eva Sulkusky
8/ 8/72 4:00-7:30 pm.

Bread

(Bread without potatoes)

Put some butter & milk on stove to warm--2 tablesps or more of butter. Heat on stove slowly till it gets hot.

When butter & milk gets hot, puts cold water--about 1 cup to cool off the mixture. Don't make too hot or cold--I always test it with my elbow or the back (underside) of my wrist.

Put 2 cakes of yeast, sugar (1/2 cup) & salt (about a fist of salt).

(Salt is what gives a bread taste--if you put in too much it won't raise, if you put in too little, it won't have a taste.)

Stir with hand & add to flour in a pan or pot.

Mix with hands & punch bread dough from sides up & inward down in the center. Stiffen until the bread comes off your hands--if it sticks, add more flour. Watch don't make it too stiff, but don't make it too thin. If it's too thin, you can use it for coffee cake & nut rolls, but for bread, need it stiffer.