Recipe - Salt Rising Bread (Wsponge)

2 Potatoes, med, peel & grate
3 tablespoon Cornmeal
3 tablespoon Sugar
3 cup Water
1 cup Milk
2 tablespoon Crisco
2 teaspoon Baking powder
1 teaspoon Baking soda
All purpose flour (enough)

SPONGE: Put potatoes, cornmeal, sugar, salt and boiling water in One half gal
glass jar and stir. Set, uncovered, in warm spot overnight. Next day,
strain off foam, keep the liquid and discard the rest.

BREAD: Bring milk to a simmer and add Crisco, baking powder and soda. Blend
in sponge. Put in large bowl, add enough flour to make a stiff batter which
is still pliant enough to beat. Set in a warm place to rise to double. Add
a little more flour to make dough stiff enough to shape into 3 loaves and
let double. Bake at 350 for about an hour.

From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini