add 1/2 cup of molasses. Fill two layer cake pans and bake
in a hot oven about 25 minutes. This is so easily and quickly made.
The young housewife may mix, when commencing to prepare lunch, and
when the meal is ready to serve the bread will be baked, and it is an
excellent laxative.

FRAU SCHMIDT'S "HUTZEL BROD"

1 quart dried pears.
1 pint of pear juice.
1 Fleischman's yeast cake.
1 scant cup brown sugar.
2 eggs.
1/4 teaspoonful soda.
1 pound of soaked raisins.
3/4 cup of a mixture of lard and butter.
1 teaspoonful of fennel seed.
Pinch of salt.
2 teaspoonfuls of ground cinnamon.
Flour to stiffen, as for ordinary bread.

Cover one quart of dried pears with cold water and cook slowly about
20 minutes until they have cooked tender, but not soft (the night
before the day on which the bread is to be baked).

Then drain the juice from stewed pears, which should measure 1 pint;
when lukewarm, add 1 yeast cake, dissolved in a small quantity of
lukewarm water, and about 3 cups of flour and a pinch of salt. Stand,
closely-covered, in a warm place over night to raise.

The following morning, add 1/4 teaspoonful of baking soda, dissolved
in a little warm water, to counteract any acidity of batter. Cream
together sugar, butter and lard, add eggs one at a time, men the
well-floured, diced pears, also raisins, cinnamon and fennel seed, and
enough flour to stiffen as for ordinary bread. Knead well, let rise;
it will require some time, as the fruit retards the raising process.
When light, turn onto a bake-board, cut into four portions, mold into
four shapely loaves, place in pans, brush with melted butter and when
quite light, place in a moderate oven and bake one hour. This bread
will keep well several weeks, if kept in a tin cake box.

This recipe is much simpler than Aunt Sarah's recipe for making
"Hutzel Brod," but bread made from this recipe is excellent.

"AUNT SARAH'S" QUICKLY-MADE BROWN BREAD

2 cups of buttermilk, or thick, sour milk.
1/2 cup of sugar.
1/4 cup of molasses.
1 tablespoonful of melted butter.
1 egg.
1 teaspoonful of soda.
3/4 teaspoonful of salt.
3-1/2 cups of graham flour.
1/2 cup of white flour, sifted with 3/4 teaspoonful of baking powder.

The egg was placed in a bowl, and not beaten separately; sugar and
butter were creamed together, before being added; then mix in salt and
molasses, and gradually add buttermilk, in which the soda had been
dissolved; then add white and graham flou