Household Bread

• Flour, ½ bushel
• salt (when it is liked), 4 to 6 oz.
• yeast,

Put half a bushel (more or less, according to the consumption of the family) of flour into the kneading tub or trough, and hollow it well in the middle; dilute a pint of yeast as it is brought from the brewery or half the quantity if it has been washed and rendered solid, with