To make French Bread.
TAKE a quarter of a peck of flour, one ounce of butter melted in milk and water, mix two or three spoonfuls of barm with it, strain put it in your water, with a little salt, work it up to a light paste, put it into a bowl, then pull it into pieces, let it stand all night, then work it well up again an hour, cover it, and lay it on a dresser for half an hour, then work all the pieces separate and make them into rolls, and let them in the oven.