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Wheatmeal Bread with German or Homemade Yeast

From Soups, savouries, sweets, with a chapter on breads, 1889

Bread should be turned out of the tin to cool.

Presented as published in 1889. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record

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As published

This recipe was extracted from Soups, savouries, sweets, with a chapter on breads (1889) by Practical housewife, page 38. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Two pounds of wheatmeal ; one teaspoon- ful of salt ; a piece of German yeast the size of a nutmeg, or one dessertspoonful of home- made or brewer's yeast ; half a pint of water at 66° Fah. ; half a pint of milk-and-water at 66° Fah. ; one teaspoonful of brown sugar

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