Two cups boiling water, one-half cup molasses, one-half tablespoonful of salt, one tablespoonful of butter, one-half yeast cake dissolved in one-half cup lukewarm water, one cup rolled oats, four and a half cups of flour.

Add boiling water to oats and let stand one hour; add molasses, salt, butter, dissolved yeast cake, and flour; let rise, beat thoroughly, turn into buttered bread-pans, let rise again, and bake. By using one-half cup less flour, the dough is better suited for biscuits, but, being soft, is difficult to handle. To make shaping of biscuits easy, take up mixture by spoonfuls, drop into plate of flour, and have palms of hands well covered with flour before attempting to shape.