Home Made Bread

Ingredients

• six or eight medium-sized potatoes
• a quart of water
• a tablespoonful of salt
• a cupful of home-made yeast

Method

1. 1

   Peel, boil, and mash potatoes.

2. 2

   Strain water, add flour to make a batter, beat, mix in salt and yeast, cover, and let rise.

3. 3

   Knead in flour, shape into loaves, and bake for 45 to 60 minutes.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 12 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The century cook book (1894) by Jennie A. Hansey, page 65. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

a quart of warm water and let it raise. Boil twelve or four- teen good sized potatoes, mash and mix in one-half teacupful of salt, one-half teacup of sugar; add one quart of cold water, and one of hot; stir in the water in which the yeast cake was dissolved, and let it rise. Use one pint of this yeast for every loaf of bread. Salt Rising. Take two teacupsful of hot water and one of cold, put in a pitcher, or other deep vessel ; add one tea- spoonful of salt and one of soda; stir in enough flour to make a batter; set in a kettle of warm water, cover closely until it rises. If kept warm it will rise in from four to six hours. Salt Rising Bread. Sift some flour in a bread pan, make a cavity in the center, and stir in slowly a quart of boiling water. Cool and thin the scalded mass with a quart of milk; add a Cottage Loaf. tablespoouful of salt, stir in the salt 109 no Bread and Cakes rising, cover with flour and set away to rise. When light, mix thoroughly, knead into loaves, put into baking pans and let it rise once more. When light, bake in -a moderate oven from thirty to forty minutes, according to the size of the loaves. Home Made Bread. Peel, boil and mash six or eight medium-sized potatoes; add a quart 'Sy"y^||^^P)^ of water, strain through a colander and add enough flour to make a Bread. batter, and beat for two or three minutes; mix in thoroughly a tablespoonful of salt and a cupful of home-made yeast

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