To Make Good Bread

Ingredients

• a pint of meal
• two quarts of flour
• a little salt
• a cup of yeast
• warm water, or milk

Method

1. 1

   Make a mush from the meal, pour it onto the flour, and when cool, add salt, warm water or milk, and yeast.

2. 2

   Work with a spoon and let rise until morning.

3. 3

   Knead well, shape into loaves, and bake.

As published

This recipe was extracted from La cuisine creole (1885) by Lafcadio Hearn, page 51. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

two quarts of flour, and the bread will be most excellent, if carefuUy made according to thèse directions. Use lard as nsual in making the bread up for baking. TO MAKE A LOAF OF GOOD BREAD. One large spoonf ul of hop yeast, or a yeast cake ; put this to a pint of water, mash to this two Irish potatoes, and stir ail together. Sif t in flour until you hâve a stifif batter, and set it to rise. When it is very light, stir in a spoonful of lard, and enough flour to enable you to mould it into a loaf . When moulded, grease the top, and set it to rise again. If really light, you can now bake it ; but if not, work it down again, and momld it over and let it rise again. This is made plain and definite, for nothing is more discouraging for a young housekeeper LA CUISINE CREOLE. 125 than to f eel that she really tried, and yet could not mske good bread. This is in such small quantities that a young person could try it, without f eeling that she was wasting much, if she does not succeed the first time. Any one who tries this simple recipe will hâve the pleas- ure of presenting a niée loaf of bread to her f amily. TO MAKB GOOD BBEAD. Make a pint of meal into mush^ then pour it on to two quarts of fiour; when cool, add a little sait and warm water, or milk, and a cup of yeast ; work it with a spoon, and set it by to rise until moming. Knead it well ; yes, very well, and make it into loaves ; place in the pan, and when light, bake it. Add a little lard, if liked. A VEEY NICE POTATO BEEAD. To two pounds or pints of flour, add one pound or pint of warm, mashed mealy Irish potatoes. Add to this miik and water, a cup of yeast and a little sait

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