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Paul Richards' book of breads, cakes, pastries, ices and sweetmeats

1907

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Presented as published in 1907. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
up twice and fall; take it at the second drop. Add the rest of the water and the other ingre- dients; make a firm dough (best with winter wheat flour). Let rest for fifteen minutes; then run through the rollers twenty times. Scale and mold at once in the usual baking tins; cut over five times, let prove up moist, give three-quarter proof, and bake in steam in a solid heat. This bread became well known during the Columbian Exposition. The old treatment of the sponge bleaches the flour, and the rolling gives a very fine white texture and grain, but of little flavor. 908.— SNOWFLAKE BREAD. This bread is practically the same as the Columbia No. 907, and can be made from the recipe; only set a slack sponge, give it the second drop, make the dough only medium firm. Boll, scale, mold and bake in the same manner. 909.— SNOWFLAKE BREAD WITH BUTTERMILK. 1 gallon water, 1 gallon buttermilk, 2 ozs. yeast, 5 ozs. sugar, 6 ozs. salt, 6 ozs. lardSnowflake Bread with Buttermilk. Set a medium firm sponge with water and yeast. Take the sponge when ready; add milk, sugar, salt and lard and make a medium dough. Let come up, and run through the break or rollers twelve times. Scale and mold in the square box mold, or bake under cover, like the Milk Bread No. 905. 910.— HOME MADE BREADS. These breads are made mostly by the straight- dough method, raised either with ferment or compressed yeast. Some bakers add cornmeal in form of mush, or boiled rice. The doughs are set to rise in the evening, and taken in the morning. Some of the modern bakers in place of using stock yeast and ferment, use malt ex- tract, potato fiour boiled into starch, or add mashed potatoes to the doughs. This process keeps the bread moist and adds flavor. A home made bread should be close grained and of a solid texture, which is best obtained by making a medium firm dough. Work it well, and do not give full proof in baking. 911.— HOME MADE BREAD WITH FER- MENT. 6 quarts of ferment, 2 quarts water or milk, 5 ozs. saltHome Made Bread with Ferment. Make a straight dough with the ingredients; set at 75 to 80 degrees Fahr. Work the dough well and pen it close up in the trough; let come up, and work over ; let come up half, then throw out; scale, mold in the box and form in loaves. Sugar and lard may be added to this mixture. It may also be made into French bread or rolls. 912.— HOME MADE BREAD WITH COM- PRESSED YEAST. 2 gallons water, 2 ozs. yeast, 6 ozs. salt, 6 ozs. sugar, 6 ozs. lardHome Made Bread with Compressed Yeast. Make a straight dough in the evening at 75 degrees Pahr., using a good strong flour. This dough will be ready in from eight to nine hours. It will flatten out like a sponge when ready — lose its resistance. Work this dough over well and let come on for twenty minutes. Scale, mold and pan as usual. The same recipe may be got ready in about four hours with four to six ounces of yeast, at a warmer temperature; and it can be made to come slow or fast, using more or less yeast. 913.— NEW ENGLAND BREAD WITH SPONGE. 2 gallons water, 2 ozs. yeast, 6 ozs. salt, 6 ozs. sugar, 4 ozs. lard. Set sponge with six quarts of water at 75 degrees Fahr. Scald twenty ounces of cornmealNew England Bread with Sponge (white) into a soft mush. When the sponge is ready, thin up the cornmeal with two quarts of water; rub it through a sieve onto the sponge; add sugar, salt and lard, and make a medium dough. Let come up, work over, scale and mold into loaves. Give only three-quarter proof, and bake in a good heat. 914.— NEW ENGLAND BREAD, STRAIGHT DOUGH. To the recipes No. 911 or No. 912 add four pounds of cornmeal mush, or take twenty ounces of white cornmeal and make it into mush and add it to the dough. Treat like No. 913. 915.— QUAKER BREAD.