Let the yeast ferment, at least over night. Then you are ready to start making your bread!

        Find a big pan, dump half of the jar of yeast into the pan. Add a tsp. salt, a little sugar and some flour. If you want sweet rolls, just add some more sugar. Be sure your father has just been to the mill with his wheat, to be made into flour so you will have enough flour to complete this batch of bread. The local grist mill is the best place to buy your flour, because it is not as refined as the stuff you might buy in the store. It probably is more nutritious, and that is what we are looking for here today.

        Make sure your hands are cleaned and also your finger nails, because you'll be getting into the dough a lot. Keep adding flour, a cup at a time, to the yeast liquid. Knead about 10 minutes, after the dough gets past the sticky stage. Leave it sit to rise for a while. They call this resting. Then knead some more. Cover the big ball of dough with a clean flour sack and let the dough rise to the top of the pan. This usually takes about twenty minutes. You can now go out to the garden and hoe a few rows of potatoes, if you wish.

        One gal got impatient and didn't have faith in her yeast. The dough just didn't rise fast enough so she threw the dough out in the garbage can and started another batch. The sun came out and the dough rose above the can, pushing the garbage can lid aside. Don't let this happen to you, have faith in your yeast!!

        Then divide the dough into parts, depending on how many loaves you want. Grease your loaf pans and set aside. Let each lump of dough rest a few minutes and then, after kneading each, until you are tired, plop them into the greased pans. Butter the top with some of that good farm made butter that you just got through churning. I hope you have reserved a small amount of dough so you can make FLAT BREAD. This is made by getting the heavy rolling pin out, that your father made from a chunk of scrub oak and roll the dough out into a circle, like you are making noodles. Then pick it up and toss it in the hot oven to bake to a nice tan brown. By the way, did you heat up the stove yet?

        Before the bread rises above the pans you must go out and get a big arm load of that good dry scrub oak that, hopefully your father has sawed into nice stove sized chunks for you. Start a fire in the stove and get it really hot. The oven will get hot too and you have to have experience to know when to put the bread into the oven to bake. Time will give you this experience. If you don't succeed at first, try again the next time.

        When the oven is warm enough, as you open the oven door and feel a blast of hot air come out, then you can pop the bread in the oven. Instruct your 10 kids to not jump on the floor, at least for the first half hour that the bread is baking, because if they do the bread will sink in the middle and be a lump of dough.

        Like I say, experience is the best teacher for this job. If all turns out well, pull the browned loaves out on to the oven door and dab some home made butter on top. Shove the bread in the oven again for at least another five minutes. This softens the crust and makes is delicious.

        Now the best part has arrived. Get some flour sacks spread out on the table and gather up a couple more for hot pads and lift the hot loaves out onto the table. If you have baked three or more leaves in one pan, pull the leaves apart so they can cool. Tip the individual pans over and smell the beautiful aroma of your HOME BAKED bread.

        If your mother has been too busy, hoeing potatoes to get the batch of bread started early in the day, the kids will love it when the bread is baked after dark. This gives them a chance to sit in the darkened kitchen, with their mother and watch the fire flickering in the stove. The kitchen smells like heaven and all's right with the world.

        THEN comes the tasting of this delicious HOME MADE BREAD. Mother will get out the plum jam, HOME MADE BUTTER, Milk from the Jersey cow, and tear off chunks of that heavenly bread and she, Dad and the kids will have a midnight snack.

        Doesn't that sound GOOD? Now it is your turn to try, but maybe you had better not depend on this recipe. The method is great, but maybe Betty Crocker has a better recipe. GOOD LUCK!!