Two women who each need the other for different reasons meet for breakfast at Sue's Diner in this BryonySeries novel by Ed Calkins, Steward of Tara.​

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The waitress brought their food: roast beef hash topped with two sunny side up eggs for each and shared platter of thickly sliced buttermilk bread with two small crocks of whipped butter. Trudy immediately buttered a slice and launched into business. 

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Enjoy the buttermilk at home with our recipe from this BryonySeries cookbook.

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1 tablespoon active dry yeast

1 tablespoon sugar

½ cup warm water

4 cups unbleached flour

2 teaspoons salt

¼ cup melted butter

1 to 1 ½ cups buttermilk

 

Combine yeast, sugar, and water. Allow to sit until foamy. Mix remaining ingredients, then add yeast mixture and beat well. Remove to a floured board and knead for 10 minutes, adding more flour, if necessary. Place dough in a greased bowl, cover with a warm, wet, wrung-out cloth, and let sit in a draft-free place to rise until double in bulk, at least 1 hour. Punch down, form into a loaf, and place in a greased baking pan. Let rise again until doubled, then bake in a center of a preheated 350 degree oven for 1 hour. Yield: 1 loaf of very good bread.

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