Salt Rising Bread - cooking recipe

Ingredients

sweet milk
boiling water
meal
salt
soda
shortening
butter

Preparation

Take 1 cup sweet milk and let come to a boil.
Thicken with meal.
Cover and set in warm place. Stir well before going to bed. Next morning, add 1 cup sweet milk, 1 cup boiling water, 1 tablespoon salt and pinch of soda.
Thicken with flour; keep warm. After it rises well, fix flour as for biscuits and make up.
Add 1 tablespoon sugar and a little salt.
Pour in yeast.
Add three pieces of shortening size of small egg.
Knead until smooth.
Make into loaves.
Put in well-greased pan and when it rises to almost full, bake in moderate oven for 1 hour.
When done, rub top with butter.