Breads

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Here is a recipe that I received years ago from an Aunt who lived in Texas. I altered one ingredient recently and it changed the texture to a lighter bread, but still very good.

Stone Ground Cornbread

Sift:
1 C flour
3/4 tsp salt
4 tsp baking powder
1/4 C sugar

Stir in 1 C corn meal (if you can't find stone ground, other corn meal will work as well).

Then add:
1 C milk
2 eggs
1/4 C shortening (I substituted vegetable oil for the shortening)

Stir until just mixed.
Grease bottom of 9 x 11 baking pan (I have used a 9 x 9) and sprinkle with corn meal. Pour in pan and bake in oven preheated to 450 degrees for about 30 minutes or until brown on top.

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Not necessarily a "bread", but are mixed up like one

Hot Pretzels

Dissolve:
1 package of dry yeast in 1/8 C hot H2O

Mix in
1/3 C brown sugar
1 1/3 C warm H2O
5 C flour

Knead dough until smooth. Break into pieces the size of a golf ball. Shape into pretzels.

In a very large pot, boil 12 C of H2O add 4 1/2 Tbsp baking soda. Drop pretzels into boiling H2O. Boil for 30 seconds and remove. Place on ungreased cookie sheet. Sprinkle with kosher salt and bake at 475 degrees until brown.