Pumpkin Bread (Pioneer)

Ingredients

• 1 pint meal
• salt
• 1 cup stewed pumpkin
• 1/2 cup lard
• sweet milk

Instructions

1. Sift a pint of meal, add salt to season fully.
2. Then rub through a large cupful of stewed pumpkin, made very smooth.
3. Add half a cup melted lard, then mix with sweet milk to a fairly stiff dough.
4. Make pones, and bake crisp.
5. Mashed sweet potato can be used instead of pumpkin, and cracklings, rubbed very fine, in place of lard.
6. Persimmon bread can be made the same way, using the pulp of ripe persimmons to mix with the meal — but freeing the pulp properly from skin and seed takes very great patience.