Coffee-Bread Recipe ingredients

To prepare this Coffee-Bread Recipe, first 1 cake of compressed yeast soaked in 1/3 cupful of tepid milk. Sift and weigh 2 pounds of flour. Early in the morning make a small hole in the flour and put in it the milk and yeast; stir into a batter. Let this stand until light, from one to three hours. Then take 1/2 pound of washed butter, 1 small teacupful of sugar, 1 small teacupful of milk, the grated rind of a lemon, and 7 eggs. Put this in the bowl with the flour and yeast, and stir until thoroughly mixed. Set aside to rise. Separate into two parts, each of these into three parts, pull these into long rolls, and braid. Put into two buttered pans and let rise. When ready to put into the oven brush over with milk and egg (stirred together) and sift sugar on top.