Bread Making

Ingredients

• 1 lb. of warmed flour
• 0.5 oz. yeast
• 1 teaspoonful of salt
• about J pint of warm water
• 1 part of boiling
• 2 parts of cold

Method

1. 1

   Warm the flour, mix with yeast and salt, then add warm water.

2. 2

   Allow yeast to sponge, mix with flour, knead until smooth, and let rise for 1 hour in a warm place.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Instruction in cookery (Methuen's text-books, Thompson) (1908) by A. P. Thompson, page 8. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

bread-making is a home industry, such as it is in York- shire. It really is an easy lesson to give if a little methodical preparation is given beforehand, and the children are very keenly interested in it. Yeast — The best German yeast must be used. In London this must be ordered at the baker’s the day before, as the retail demand for this is so irregular. For every 3J lb. of flour, or 1 quartern, allow 1 oz. of yeast if made separately ; but 2 o z. will raise more than 2 quarterns satisfactorily. Method — The best way is for the teacher, immedi- ately she comes, to put the flour and basins down to warm, have the kettle boiling, and see that the children wash their hands and arms scrupulously clean and put on their aprons and sleeves. She should try, if possible, to get them to come a little earlier on bread days. After calling the register, the teacher goes to her demonstration table and washes her hands before them. My readers may think that I am unnecessarily emphasizing the fact of clean hands, 18 BREAD AND BREAD-MAKING i9 but they need only look at the dough after the children have kneaded to wonder where the dirt came from. The teacher should next make up 1 lb. of warmed flour, with \ o z. yeast and 1 teaspoonful of salt, and about J pint of warm water. (See recipe at the end of the chapter.) After demonstrating clearly that lukewarm water is blood-heat or comfortably warm water, and showing how it is made with 1 part of boiling and 2 parts of cold

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