Name: French Bread
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 pint of milk; 4 tablespoonfuls of melted butter; 1 cupful of yeast; 1 teaspoonful of salt and two eggs; 2 quarts of flour; 2 large rolls and bake as any bread

Original Recipe

Beat together one pint of milk, four tablespoonfuls of melted butter, or half butter and half lard, half a cupful of yeast, one teaspoonful of salt and two eggs. Stir into this two quarts of flour. When this dough is risen, make into two large rolls and bake as any bread. Cut across the top diagonal gashes just before putting into the oven.

1 pint of milk
4 tablespoonfuls of melted butter
1 cupful of yeast
1 teaspoonful of salt and two eggs
2 quarts of flour
2 large rolls and bake as any bread

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1

Beat together one pint of milk, four tablespoonfuls of melted butter, or half butter and half lard, half a cupful of yeast, one teaspoonful of salt and two eggs.
2

Stir into this two quarts of flour.
3

When this dough is risen, make into two large rolls and bake as any bread.
4

Cut across the top diagonal gashes just before putting into the oven.

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