war bread recipes from 1918

[wargarden]

The Garden Island
Lihue, Hawaii
01 Jan 1918, Tue • Page 3
WAR BREADS. Mrs. Russell. (Reprinted by request.)

Sweet Potato Bread. For 3 loaves, take two good-sized sweet potatoes equivalent
to one pound, boil and mash; add enough water to make up 3 cups full; mix with one
cup potato yeast; add 6 cups flour and 3 teaspoons salt. Mix at night and cover, and
make up into loaves early in the morning. Raise again for an hour and bake.
The potato mixture should be cool before the yeast is added. .

Irish Potato Bread. Make in the same way as the sweet potato bread,
adding 3 tablespoons sugar.

Rice Bread. For 3 loaves, take 3 tablespoons uncooked rice, boiled in 3 cups water
till soft. When cool, mash together; add enough water to make up 3 cups full; mix
with 1 cup potato yeast; .add 6 cups flour, with 3 tablespoons sugar and 3 teaspoons salt.
Proceed as in Sweet Potato Bread.

Graham Bread. To make 3 loaves, take 4 cups white flour; sift with 3 teaspoons salt,
3 tablespoons sugar, and 5 cups Graham flour. Add 1 cup potato yeast and 2 cups liquid
(milk or water) Proceed as in Sweet Potato Broad above.

[earthmaiden]

I think that these kind of breads are quite in vogue now.

[suffolk]

The recipe given on this site for making the required “potato yeast”
may be of help https://readynutrition.com/resources/su ... _02032011/

[wargarden]

here are few more

The Butte Miner
Butte, Montana
04 May 1918, Sat • Page 11

CORN BREAD. (Mrs. Shaffer.) 1 cupful of cornmeal,
(2 tablespoonfuls lard or drippings, 1 cupful of flour
(Truscott's) cupful of sugar, 1 cupful of sour cream, 2 eggs,
(Campana's), teaspoonful baking soda, teaspoonful salt.
Mix cornmeal with flour, sugar, salt, Crisco and eggs well
beaten, add soda with -cream. Mix well and turn into greased
pans and bake in moderate oven for 5O minutes.

WHEATLESS HOMINY BREAD FOB , BREAKFAST. (Mrs. H. J.
Shaffer, 050 Maryland . Avenue.) Prise Winner. 3 cupfuls
cooked hominy, 2 table-spoonfuls melted Crisco (lard or
drippings may be used) 1 cupfuls of corn, meal (all from
The American Mercantile Co.), 2 eggs, (Best Yet Butte Shop),
1 teaspoonful of salt, 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder
(Kermode Grocery), beat eggs, add milk and hominy, sift in
cornmeal, add baking powder and alt, then Crisco, pour
into a deep greased pan and bake one hour in slow oven,
serve hot.

I will post several more later

[earthmaiden]

Is a Campana a bird?

[wargarden]

Is a Campana a bird?

Campana is name of a store or name owner in Butte area.
since many recipes of era listed the store you can find the ingredient
or one of highest quality.

I will post a few more recipes from an Ohio paper
later I don't have the time at moment to spell or word check
the (OCR) of the recipes.