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’3 Back then, we had to make school lunches for 4 or 5 kids out ofhome- made bread. It took a lot of bread to feed that many. We put the bread in white flour bags and tie them in the basement ceiling to keep it fresh. One day, Edith MacPhail, who at that time was a young mother living at the MacPhail family farm, was making bread and couldn’t get it to rise. She glanced out the window and saw her father-in-law coming down the lane. Flour, sugar, and yeast were items that were not to be wasted; she couldn’t think what to do, so without thought she threw the bread in the wood stove (in the actual part where you put the wood) not the oven. You can imagine her father-in-law's surprise as he sat in his rocker and suddenly bread started to rise, lifting every moveable thing on the stove. Edith had quite a clean~ up on her hands and a lot ofexplaining to do. She did learn her lesson, the next time the dough didn't rise, she threw it in the manure pile. When the men were coming in from the fields, they couldn't figure out what all the white stuffwas billowing out ofthe manure pile.

a Edith MacPhail was going to town one hot day and Bev MacPhail asked ifthere was anything she could do while she was gone. Edith said she could make some bread. Bev had never made bread. She got out a recipe and put way too much water in it so she kept adding flour and the pile of dough she had! It wouldn't rise and it was getting later and later. Luckily, she avoided her sister-in-law's disposal technique and found a way to use it.

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