Four-Hour Bread - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 c. mashed potatoes
1 qt. potato water
1/2 c. flour
1/2 c. sugar
1 cake yeast
2 Tbsp. lard
2 Tbsp. salt

Preparation

Pour potato water, hot, over flour and sugar.
Add potatoes and cool.
Add yeast.
Make sponge.
Beat 5 minutes, then let rise and add lard and salt.
Stiffen up and knead at least 20 minutes. Let rise and knead down.
Let rise again.
Make into loaves or light cakes.
Let rise and bake.