Salt Rising Bread

Instructions

1. Start about 5 o'clock in the evening, scald cornmeal, and other ingredients and work into a mush.
2. Set in warm place until next morning.
3. Then add other ingredients.
4. Put soda into a pint of boiling water; add cold water until liquid mixture is lukewarm and make into thick batter with flour.
5. Now add the mush made overnight and stir briskly for a minute or two.
6. Turn all into close vessel and set in a kettle of warm water.
7. Take care to keep the 'sponge' of uniform temperature.
8. Water in kettle should be as hot as the hand can bear.
9. Put a plate in the kettle under vessel holding 'sponge' lest it get too hot.
10. When light and foamy make into a dough with flour, adding a tablespoonful of lard, mold into loaves.
11. Put into pan bread.
12. Scald vessels in soda and water, before using.