Ingredients

3/4 drop saffron
4 pounds flour
1 pound currants
1/2 pound sugar
Salt
Lemon peel
20 ounces shortening
3 tsp. worth of yeast

Cooking Instructions

Cut up saffron and put in a little cold water, add hot and put in warm oven to soak. Put yeast in a basin and put a little sugar in with it. Pour one C. warm water on it, put some flour in and put on the back of the stove. Mix all together and let dough rise. Then make into loaves and let rise. Bake.

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