Bread

Ingredients

• one cake of yeast
• Dissolve in lukewarm water or milk
• a teaspoonfull of salt

Method

1. 1

   Dissolve yeast in water or milk, mix with flour to make a stiff batter, let it rise, then add salt and more flour to make a stiff dough.

2. 2

   Shape into loaves and bake.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A Book of Cooking and Pastry: A Collection of Original Receipts Gathered ... (1887) by C. F. Pfau, page 26. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BREAD. No baking powder is used in any of these recipes; more eggs are required for them, but they will be found much healthier and more substantial. Those who wish to use powder can make it pure themselves, not making too much at one time. Use two parts of pure cream of tartar, one part of pure bi-carbonate of soda and one part dry powdered corn starch, well sifted together and kept dry. Carbonate of amonia can be used to raise cakes in small quantities; it leaves the cake and evapor- ates when in the heated oven, and not a particle remains after it does its duty, while baking powder remains in the cake, especially if not pure. Any of the following recipes can be made cheaper by adding milk and flour and leaving out some eggs, but it is better to eat good bread than a poor imitation of cake. REMARKS ON YEAST. Compressed yeast must be yellow white, be firm, and have a bitter smell. If any article is needed in a hurry an extra cake of yeast may be added without injury. Good bread can be made in three hours. Always set a sponge before making the dough, and it will work smoother and raise faster. Use patent flour made of winter wheat mixed with spring wheat tor bread, but for cakes and pastry winter wheat is preferable. / BREAD. / Dissolve in lukewarm water or milk one cake of yeast, sift flour into a bowl and stir the yeast into the middle of the flour, mix with some flour, make a stiff batter, sift some flour over it, and in winter time set in a warm place with a cloth thrown over it. In about thirty min- utes it will be raised; add a teaspoonfull of salt

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