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Mix the flour with the sugar and make a mound with a hole in the middle where you will drop the rest of the ingredients, adding a little milk to obtain a rather soft dough. Shape the dough in a slightly flattened cylinder about half a meter long. Grease a baking pan with butter, and divide the loaf into two parts so that it will fit in the pan. Make sure that the two parts are well separated, b