Brown Bread

Ingredients

• 10 lbs. flour
• 5 lbs wheat meal
• 2} ozs. salt
• liquid yeast
• 5 pints water at 120° F.

Method

1. 1

   Mix the flour and wheat meal together.

2. 2

   Make a hollow in the mixture and pour in one-half of the water; then mix in enough of the flour to make a batter.

3. 3

   When this is mixed, add the yeast and salt and mix these in the batter; then add the remaining water and knead all very thoroughly until the dough is quite smooth and not sticky.

4. 4

   Cover this over and put it in a warm place to rise.

5. 5

   When the dough is risen give it another thorough kneading, then divide it into pieces weighing 2 lbs.

6. 6

   3 ozs. each.

7. 7

   Mould up these pieces and place them in lightly greased tins, cover over, and allow to rise again until about one-third higher than when moulded.

8. 8

   Bake in a hot oven (425° F.) with bottom heat for one hour.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Sea Cookery (1911) by Richard Bond, page 92. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BROWN BREAD. 10 lbs. flour 5 lbs wheat meal 2} ozs. salt liquid yeast 5 pints water at 120° F. 2 ozs. compressed yeast or \ pint

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