1 cake of yeast
1/4 cup lukewarm water
1 cup milk
1/2 teaspoons salt
1 1 /2 tablespoons sugar
4 tablespoons shortening
1 egg white
3 1/2 cups sifted flour

This recipe came from a very old cook book (first published in 1938). I typed the ingredients just as they were given in the book and will give the original method. But in the next (2nd) paragraph I will give the method I have adapted for my bread maker. Oh, by the way, my bread maker only maked 1 pound loaves so the bread machine recipe will be adjusted for that size.

Soften yeast in lukewarm water. Add salt, sugar, and shortening to milk. Mix milk mixture, yeast mixture and flour together. Knead dough until smooth and elastic. Set in a buttered bowl and allow to rise to double it's bulk. You can knock it down and allow to rise a second time or just shape the dough into about 18 pencil shaped sticks. Set on a baking ban about 1 inch apart, allow to rise to double it's bulk. Preheat oven to 400 degrees then set to 325 degrees and bake bread sticks until crisp. If desired, brush rolls with egg whie before baking and sprinkle with coarse salt or poppy seed (or parmeasan cheese and garlic powder).

For the bread machine: place the water, milk, shortening (I used olive oil), and egg white in bread pan. Add flour, salt, sugar and yeast. Place the pan in the read machine. Set the machine for dough. When the dough cycle has finished, divide the dough into 18 sections and roll into pencil shape. Place on baking pan, 1 inch apart, and bake in 325 degree oven until desired crispness.

I use the basic cycle then let it go through the second rise; shut off the machine. Put the pan with the bread stick in plastic in the frig. My reasoning for this is, I don't have time to make bread after work and have it done in time for dinner but I like fresh, hot bread. I make the dough on Saturday or Sunday. This way I can come home from work, lay the bread on the counter for 10 or 20 minutes then shape it however I want (rolls, a loaf or flat and round like pizza dough) and bake for 45 minutes at 350 degrees.