Date Bread
1 cup of warm wheat much
1/4 cup of brown sugar
1 teaspoon of fresh unsalted butter
11/2 teaspoon of kosher salt
1/4 of a yeast cake
1/4 lukewarm water
Mix all of the above mentioned ingredients and when it gets lukewarm, add 1/4 of a yeast cake dissolved in a 1/4 cup lukewarm water and enough of white bread flour to knead the dough, Cover the bowl with a fresh cheesecloth and the lid and let the dough rise over night. In the morning, cut the dough down ino half and knead in one cupful of dates stoned and cut in pieces. Shape your dough into a loaf or fill the dough into hot buttered gem pans. The level of the dough in the pan should be no higher than two thirds of the full height of the pan. Then cover the dough again let it rise - 10-15 mins and bake in a moderately hot oven. If you take twice the quantity of yeast cake and use that much, the time required for the process of making this bread is reduced to six hours.
This is how traditionally my grandmother from North Dakota was baking her bread.