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Default Recipe: Pop Up Bread (Another "heirloom" recipe)

"Andy" > wrote in message ...
> jmcquown said...
>
>> This one is in Grandma Brown's handwriting.
>>
>> Pop Up Bread
>>
>> 4 c. flour
>> 1 pkg. dry yeast
>> 2 eggs
>> 1/2 c. milk
>> 1/2 c. water
>> 1/2 c. "salad oil"
>> 1/4 c. sugar
>> 1 tsp. salt
>>
>> Measure 1-1/2 cups of flour into a large bowl with yeast.
>> In saucepan: put milk, water, salad oil, sugar and salt. Heat only
>> until warm. Then add to flour and yeast. Stir until smooth then add
>> slightly beaten eggs. Add rest of flour to make a stiff batter, beating
>> until smooth and elastic.
>>
>> Spoon into two well greased 1 lb. coffee cans. Cover with plastic lids
>> and let rise almost to top of cans. Remove lids and bake at 350 for 35
>> minutes. Cool 10 minutes and remove from cans.
>>
>> Jill

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>
> You actually expect us to try tin coffee cans?!?
>
> You better modernize those 1930s recipes?
>
> Andy



I don't expect you to do anything, Andy Wayne and a few others asked me
to post the recipes I found in that old box; that's what I'm doing. But
really, you've never heard of coffee can bread before? (Before I read
through the recipe I expected it to be a recipe for popovers.)

Jill