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Apple Bread
From The new practical housekeeping, 1890
Serves 8
Other fruits like pears can also be used. Fruit breads may have a laxative effect.
Presented as published in 1890. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record
Ingredients
- one pound of fruit pulp
- two pounds flour
- teaspoon salt
- one gill liquid yeast
- water enough to make a soft dough
Method
Pare the apples, stew them tender, adding a little sugar if very sour; pulp through a sieve.
Mix the pulp with flour, salt, yeast, and enough water to make a soft dough.
Knead, shape into loaves, let rise, and bake as ordinary bread.
Nutrition per serving
500Calories
17 gProtein
105 gCarbs
3 gFat
Estimated from matched ingredients across 8 servings.
As published
This recipe was extracted from The new practical housekeeping (1890) by Estelle Woods Wilcox, page 13. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
Apple Bread. — To make bread from apples or other fruits, pare them, put them over the fire and stew them tender, adding a httle sugar if they are very sour; then pulp them through a sieve. Use this pulp as the basis of bread ; mix one pound of fruit pulp with two pounds flour, teaspoon salt, one gill liquid yeast, and water enough to make a soft dough
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