The recipe is the same for all makers, utilizing flour, sugar, water and baking soda - plus the obligatory spices.

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On the day of baking, dissolve the yeast in the water in the bowl of an electric mixer.

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The stove was needed every day for cooking, for baking bread (most of the people could not afford store-bought bread), and for heating wash water.

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