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Title: Potato Salt-Rising Bread
Yield: 60 Servings

Ingredients

      3    medium potato raw w/skin
  2 1/2 tb salt
      2 ts sugar
      2 tb cornmeal
      4 c  water
      1 ts baking soda
     11 c  all purpose flour
      1 c  milk 1%
      2 tb butter

Instructions

STARTER: cut 2/1/2 C new non-mealy potatoes in thin slices, place in
bowl, sprinkle ove them 1 T sale, 2 t sugar, 2 T white cornmeal, add
4 C boiling water and stir till salt disolved. let stand, covered, 15
hours, squeeze out potatoes. Drain liquid into bowl and add, stiring
till blended, 1 t baking soda, 1 1/2 t salt, 5 C sifted flour. Beat
(forever) place in greased bowl in warm place to rise till light.
Bubbles should come to surface and increase in size 1/3 (1 1/2 hrs).
Scald 1 C milk and when lukewarm, add 2 T butter, add to sponge with
5 -6 6 C sifted flour. Knead 10 min, shape into loaves, let rise,
covered, to near double in size. Bake 350 1 hour.

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