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sour milk. Mix together, roll thin and cut into rounds. Bake twenty minutes.

Spider Cake

• 2 Cupfuls of Bread Flour
• ⅓ Cupful of Lard
• 2 Teaspoonfuls of Cream of Tartar
• 1 Teaspoonful of Soda
• ½ Teaspoonful of Salt

Put the soda, salt and cream of tartar into the dry flour. Rub in the lard and mix with water into a soft dough. Roll to the size of the spider or griddle. When the spider is hot and well greased with lard, lay on the cake and cover. Bake ten minutes on one side, then ten on the other. This can be made quickly without waiting for the oven to heat. Serve hot with butter.

White Bread

• 3 Cupfuls of Flour
• 3 Teaspoonfuls of Sugar
• 1 Teaspoonful of Lard
• 1 Pinch of Salt
• ½ Yeast Cake

Rub sugar, salt and lard into the flour. Dissolve the yeast in half a cupful of cold water. Put all together and mix to a stiff dough with milk or water, at night. In the morning, push it down and let rise again. Then knead and place in a pan. Let it rise to twice its bulk and bake thirty minutes.