This quantity of dough should be made into twelve small loaves.

Should the flour and liquid used be warmed before mixing, the dough will raise more quickly.

It simplifies the work if the fruits and nuts be prepared the day before the bread is baked.
AUNT SARAH'S WHITE BREAD AND ROLLS 1 quart potato water.
1 mashed potato.
1 tablespoonful butter or lard.
1 tablespoonful sugar.
1 Fleischman yeast cake, or 1 cup good yeast.
1/2 tablespoonful salt.
Flour to stiffen (about three quarts).
At 9 o'clock in the evening put in a large bowl the mashed potato, the quart of luke-warm potato water (water in which potatoes were boiled for dinner), butter or sweet lard, sugar, salt, and mix with flour into a batter, to which add the Fleischman's or any good yeast cake, dissolved in a little luke-warm water.

Beat well and stir in flour until quite stiff, turn out on a well-floured bake-board and knead well about 25 minutes, until the dough is smooth, fine-grained and elastic, and does not stick lo the bake-board or hands.

Chop a knife through the dough several times; knead and chop again.