It may be kept two weeks, and at the end of that time still be good.

It is rather expensive as regards fruit and nuts, but as no eggs are used, and a very small quantity of butter; and as bread containing fruit is so much more wholesome than rich fruit cake.
I think American housewives would do well to bake this German bread occasionally.

Mary took one-fourth the quantity of everything called for in the recipe, except yeast.

She used 3/4 of a cake of Fleischman's yeast and 1/4 of each of the other ingredients, and from these baked three loaves of bread.

The prunes and pears should be covered with cold water at night and allowed to stand until the following morning, when, after stewing until tender, the juice should be drained from the fruit and water added to the fruit-juice to measure two quarts.