Sponge: For sponge: Whisk all ingredients in large bowl until smooth. Cover bowl with plastic. Let rise in warm draft-free area until doubled, ...

Rub the butter into the flour. Add the salt and soda, mix all well together by running the dry ingredients through your fingers. Add the buttermilk ...

* You will need somewhere between these two amounts of buttermilk, depending on how much liquid your flour tends to absorb. Try to avoid using ...

BREAD: In large bowl, combine flour, salt and baking soda. With pastry blender or two knives, cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. ...

Sieve the dry ingredients into a large bowl. Scoop up handfuls and allow to drop back into the bowl to aerate the mixture. Add enough buttermilk to ...

Mix the dry ingredients together, the add the water quickly amp; continue to stir. Add the blueberries and mix into batter. Spread batter on a pie ...

Dissolve yeast in the lukewarm water. Set aside. Scald and cool to lukewarm the 4 cups milk. Add yeast and the 1 cup sugar, 4 cups of the flour and ...

Preheat the oven to 350F. Grease a 9-inch black cast-iron skillet or cake pan and dust with flour. In a large bowl, mix 4 cups of the flour with the ...

Dissolve yeast in 1/4 cup warm water. Mix well and set aside. Combine lard, honey and salt in large bowl. Add 1 cup hot water and stir well. When ...

Crumble yeast cakes into large bowl. Stir in water. Let mixture stand until foamy, about 5 minutes. Scald milk. Add butter and salt and stir until ...