Bread

Ingredients

• 2 lbs. flour
• 1 oz. Yeast
• nearly 1 pint Water
• 1 teaspoonful Salt

Method

1. 1

   Cream yeast and salt, add warm water to it.

2. 2

   Put flour in basin, make well in centre and use enough flour just to make a sponge.

3. 3

   Sprinkle a little flour over, and set to rise for about 1 hour.

4. 4

   When risen, work all flour into a sponge, and put on a tin.

5. 5

   Set for 10 minutes, and bake in a quick oven till a good brown colour and, when you can knock it, it sounds hollow.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 4 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Tried favourites cookery book (1909) by Kirk, E. W. Mrs, page 139. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

bread to assist it to rise. Place near fire to rise, covered with cloth, for ^ hour, then bake for I, hour, trying with skewer to see if ready. Place tins in hottest pait of oven for 15 or 20 minutes, then if browning, turn, and gradually move aside to cooler part. Bread (2). li Ills, riour, 1 oz. Yeast, nearly 1 pint Water, 1 teaspoonful Salt. _ Cream yeast and salt, add warm water to it. Put flour in basin, make well in centre and nse enough flour just to make a sponge. Sprinkle a little flour over, and set to rise for about 1 hour. When risen, work all flour into a sponge, and put on a tin. Set for 10 min- utes, and bake in a quick oven till a good brown colour and, when you can knock it, it sounds hollow. Bread (with Baking; Powder). 1 lb. Flour, 1 heaped teaspoon of Eoyal Baking' Powder, pinch of Suit, tea- spoon of Sugar. Add sweet milk to make to the usual cake thickness ; put in pie- dish or cake tin, and bake in a quick oven. Time 30 to 40 minutes. Breakfast Roils. 1 lb. Flour, 2 teaspooufuls Baking Powder, 1 do. Salt, 2 oz. Butter. Mix with about 1 pint sweet milk, make up into twists, pleats, find rings ; brush over with egg, bake in hot oven for 10 minutes. Dinner Rolls. 1 lb. Floui’, 1 teaspoonful Sugar, 1 do. Baking Soda, do. Cream of Tartar, a pinch Salt. Sift all through sieve, and rtib into it 1 oz. butter. Mix with pint butter-milk ; roll out three times. Cilt in stripes, and twist round, or form into rolls. Bake in a nice quick oven for 10 minutes. Then brush over -with hot water, in which a little butter has been melted. Hot Cross BunSi 1 qiiai't Milk, l2 oz. of Butter, 1 lb. Sugar, 1 oz. mixed spice, 3 Eggs, 2 oz. Gentian Yeasst, St lbs. Flour.

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