Light Bread

Origin: Mobile, Alabama

Source: Abby Fisher, 1881

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Dissolve the yeast cake in warm water.
  2. Make up the dough over night at 10 o'clock, mixing it soft and spongy.
  3. Set the dough to rise in a warm place.
  4. Next morning, work the dough over until it becomes perfectly light, adding flour as needed to keep it from sticking to your hands.
  5. Put the dough to rise in your baking pan.
  6. When it rises, bake in a hot oven until thoroughly done.

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