Salt Rising Bread - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1/2 pt. sweet milk
1 tsp. sugar
a little pinch of salt and soda
cornmeal
1 qt. warm water
1 level tsp. salt
flour
2 qt. flour
1 Tbsp. salt
1/2 c. lard

Preparation

Take sweet milk and let boil for 1 minute.
Add 1 teaspoon sugar and a little pinch of salt and soda.
Stir in cornmeal (enough to make a moderately thin batter).
Cover and set in a warm place overnight.
Early the next morning, take a quart of warm water, put a level teaspoon of salt in it and stir in flour (enough to make a rather stiff batter).
Then stir in the cornmeal yeast. Sit in a pot of warm water and cover it.
Stir once if too long coming.
To keep the water at an even temperature, not too hot to bear the hand in.
Let the yeast stand until it rises in a fine foam.