On Wed 25 Feb 2009 05:03:18a, jmcquown told us...

> "Andy" > wrote in message
> ...
>> jmcquown said...
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>>> 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
>>
>>
>> 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
>
>

Yep, coffee can bread was well known and popular s late s the 1960s. Any
recipe I've ever seen for it always called for a 1 lb. coffee can. Perhaps
some popularity was lost when the coffee industry downsized their 1 lb.
cans to (what is it) 13 ounces?

And yes, I'm enjoying these recipes, and copying many of them down.
Thanks, Jill!

--
Wayne Boatwright

"One man's meat is another man's poison"
- Oswald Dykes, English writer, 1709.