French Bread

Ingredients

• 41b. of fine flour
• 4oz. of butter
• half a pint of tepid milk and water
• 2oz. of dried yeast

Method

1. 1

   Sift flour into a pan and make a bay in the center.

2. 2

   Dissolve butter in tepid milk and water, work it up with yeast, and pour into the bay.

3. 3

   Dust with flour and let rise in a warm place.

4. 4

   Knead again, let rise, shape into loaves, and bake.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Bread, cakes, and biscuits (1902) by S. Beaty-Pownall, page 20. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

French Bread. — Sift 41b. of fine flour into a pan and make a bay in the centre ; dissolve 4oz. of butter in half a pint of tepid milk and water, work it up with 2oz. of dried yeast

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