Baking Bread

Ingredients

• rubber blanket or false cover of the ration box
• yeast-powder can

Method

1. 1

   Mix the dough on a rubber blanket according to the formula on the yeast-powder can.

2. 2

   Bake in the Buzzacott oven or mess pans.

3. 3

   If using mess pans, place the dough in deeper pans and cover with shallow ones.

4. 4

   Rake an even bed of coals into the baking trench, place the ovens or pans on this bed, and cover with live coals.

5. 5

   Be careful not to use too many coals to avoid burning the contents.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Manual for army cooks (1896) by United States. War Dept. Subsistence Dept., page 109. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

rubber blanket or false cover of the ration box, according to the formula printed on the yeast-powder can

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.