Excerpt from Like Mother Used to Make Boil three potatoes and mash them fine while hot. Work into them a tablespoonful each of lard and sugar and stir in a pint of the water in which the potatoes were boiled. This should be lukewarm. Wet up a pint of flour with a little of the potato water, and add this to the water, sugar, lard and potatoes. -whip or stir until the batter is smooth -with no lumps. Then add half a cake of yeast, dissolved in four tablespoonfuls of warm water and a pinch of soda. (in the old time three tablespoon fuls of home-made yeast would have been used.) Turn into a deep bowl and cover and set to rise over night in a warm corner. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.