Home-Made Bread

Ingredients

• 6 lbs. of flour
• ij ozs. of German yeast
• i teaspoonful of castor sugar
• a little salt
• about 3 pints of tepid water

Method

1. 1

   Mix the flour and salt well together in a deep pan, then make a well in the centre.

2. 2

   Cream the yeast and sugar together until they form a liquid.

3. 3

   Add the tepid water to the creamed yeast, then pour the liquid gradually into the flour, working it well.

4. 4

   Cover and leave in a warm place for 2-3 hours to rise.

5. 5

   Knead the dough, divide into four portions, and shape.

6. 6

   Prove the dough before baking.

7. 7

   Bake for 40 minutes.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 4 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The household gas cookery book (1900) by Helen Edden, page 110. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Home-Made Bread. — A very large number of persons, especially those who have been brought up in the country, would be very glad indeed if they could easily and successfully make and bake their own bread, because, apart from having the decided advantage of knowing exactly what ingredients are used in the making — a matter of truly vital impor¬ tance in the case of bread — those who are their own bakers save no little money, and obtain bread of the very highest quality and most delicious flavour. hew, however, realise that bread-making is more easily accomplished with a gas stove than in country houses having special bread ovens, but that is the fact; because there is no better oven for bread baking than the oven of a gas cooker. Bread baking in the ordinary coal range is rarely, if ever, a success. In a gas cooker, it should never be a failure — it being only a question, in this as in most other things, of “ knowing how.” How fo Make. — The following ingredients are required to make four full-sized “ half-quartern ” loaves ; they should, of course, be increased propor¬ tionately for larger quantities; — 6 lbs. of flour; ij ozs. of German yeast; i teaspoonful of castor sugar; a little salt; about 3 pints of tepid water

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