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  • It has been called milk-yeast bread, patent bread, milk-emptyings bread and salt-rising bread; and it has also been stigmatized by several opprobrious and offensive epithets, bestowed, I am told, by irate housewives who lacked the skill and genius to make it.

    When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine 1887

  • Perhaps they had a little hotter fire than usual, perhaps they had hurried it a shade too much, or -- well, you can "perhaps" anything you like with milk-yeast bread.

    When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine 1887

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