Miss Minneapolis Flour

Miss Minneapolis was a flour mill in the Twin Cities that was in business from around 1920 until the mid 70’s.

They had the best logo, and ran the Miss Minneapolis beauty contest. Second place won a 50 pound bag of flour. Classy.

The below recipe is nearly 100 years old, and came from a Miss Minneapolis booklet of recipes.

I used coconut milk, but you can use the milk of a cow if you prefer. Moo.

2 cups scalded milk
1 cup boiling water
2 teaspoons salt
1 tablespoon sugar
2 tablespoons lard
1 cake of yeast
1/2 cup lukewarm water
6 cups MISS MINNEAPOLIS FLOUR

Put liquid, salt, sugar and lard into a bowl, stir until salt and sugar and lard are dissolved. Mix these with lukewarm water. When the first mixture is of the same temperature, add yeast to it. Add half the flour and beat well, then all the remainder of the flour, making batter a stiff dough. Knead until smooth and elastic, place into greased bowl, set in a warm place and let rise for about two hours. Mold into loaves, place in a warm place, and let rise for one hour. Pre-heat oven ten minutes and bake 50 minutes.