Salt Rising Bread - cooking recipe

Ingredients

3/4 c. homeground meal
1 1/4 c. boiling milk
1/4 or 1/2 tsp. soda
2 c. boiling water
1/2 c. sugar
1 c. milk
5 c. flour
5 lb. flour
3/4 c. shortening
1/3 c. sugar
3 Tbsp. salt

Preparation

Stir meal into boiling milk.
Let sit until double in warm place (1/2 to 1 1/4 days).
Add soda.
Make sponge of 2 cups boiling water poured over 1/2 cup sugar and 1 cup milk in crock. Thicken with about 5 cups flour.
Add meal yeast.
Place pitcher in hot water and let batter double (2 hours).
Sift 5 pounds flour into dishpan.
Set aside 2 cups of this flour.
Cut into flour the shortening, 1/3 cup sugar and salt.
Put in nest of flour in pan. Pour sponge in nest and rinse pitcher with 6 cups of the warm water in pan.
Mix well; put in well-greased loaf pans and set in very warm place to rise to double.
Bake at 350\u00b0 for 15 minutes and 300\u00b0 for 1 hour.
Turn out on brown paper and butter.
Total flour needed is 7 1/2 pounds.