Wheat Bread

Ingredients

• two quarts of flour
• half a teacupful of yeast
• a teaspoonful of salt
• a bit of butter of the size of an egg
• milk or water, as you choose

Method

1. 1

   Sift the flour into a bowl, make a hole in the middle, pour in the yeast, and stir lightly.

2. 2

   Add warm milk or water, and if using water, dissolve butter in it.

3. 3

   Cover and let rise.

4. 4

   In the morning, add salt and mix all flour.

5. 5

   Knead well, let rise until light, mold into loaves, and let rise again.

6. 6

   Bake in a hot oven for 45-60 minutes.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 12 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Original White House Cookbook (1887) by Hugo Ziemann, F. L. Gillette, Hugo Zimmerman, mrs gillette, page 151. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

wheat bread ; in that case the flour must be scalded and allowed to cool before the yeast is added — then proceed as above. Bread made in this manner keeps moist in sum- mer much longer than when made in the usual mode. 228 BREAD. Home-made yeast is generally preferred to any other. Compressed yeast, as now sold in most grocery stores, makes fine light, sweet bread, and is a much quicker process, and can always be had fresh, being made fresh every day. WHEAT BREAD. Sift the flour into a large bread-pan or bowl ; make a hole in the mid- dle of it, and pour in the yeast in the ratio of half a teacupful of yeast to two quarts of flour ; stir the yeast lightly, then pour in your “ wetting,” either milk or water, as you choose, — which use warm in winter and cold in summer ; if you use water as “wetting,” dissolve in it a bit of butter of the size of an egg, — if you use milk, no butter is necessary ; stir in the “wetting” very lightly, but do not mix all the flour into it; then cover the pan with a thick blanket or towel, and set it, in winter, in a warm place to rise, — this is called 'putting the bread in s'pongeR In summer the bread should not be wet over night. In the morning add a teaspoonful of salt

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.