White Bread

Ingredients

• 3 lbs. flour
• 3 small tea-spoonfuls salt
• 1 oz. yeast
• 1 tea-spoonful sugar
• About 1.5 pint lukewarm water

Method

1. 1

   Mix the yeast with 1 teaspoonful of sugar, 1 teaspoonful of flour, and a little lukewarm water.

2. 2

   Set in a warm place to rise.

3. 3

   Mix flour and salt in a bowl, make a hole in centre, pour in yeast; add a little water, and mix with a wooden spoon until nearly all the flour is taken up.

4. 4

   Knead lightly, but firmly, until the dough leaves the sides of the bowl and does not stick to the fingers.

5. 5

   Turn the smooth side uppermost, mark twice across with a knife, cover with a cloth, and set in a warm place to rise for 2 hours.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Household cookery (1905) by E. Crichton, page 16. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

white bread. Yeast used for the raising of bread should be quite fresh. To test — crumble the yeast in a basin ; work into it with a teaspoon a Httle moist sugar. If good, it will become liquid directly. Lukewarm water is used for making bread, from about 88"^ to 92^ Fahr. The temperature of water for mixing is from 80"^ to 90° Fahr. This can be obtained by mixing one-third boiling water to two-thirds cold. Proportion of yeast for making bread — 1 oz. yeast to 3 or 5 lbs. flour, li » 7 „ 10 2 ,,12 „ 14 H „ 14 » 18 White Bread 3 lbs. flour. 3 small tea-spoonfuls salt. I oz. yeast. i tea-spoonful sugar. About 1^ pint lukewarm water

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