York Brown Bread

Ingredients

• 3 tablespoonfuls sugar
• 1 tablespoonful salt
• 3 oz. of yeast
• 2 tablespoonfuls treacle (dark brown)
• 4 tablespoonfuls melted lard or butter
• 3 quarts of wholewheat flour
• Fill the measure up with lukewarm water

Method

1. 1

   In a quartern measure, combine sugar, salt, yeast, treacle, and melted lard or butter.

2. 2

   Fill the measure with lukewarm water.

3. 3

   Add wholewheat flour, knead well, and allow to rise for 2 or 3 hours in a warm place.

4. 4

   Shape into loaves, place in warmed greased tins, allow to rise for another half hour, and bake in a hot oven, being careful not to burn due to the treacle.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Instruction in cookery (Methuen's text-books, Thompson) (1908) by A. P. Thompson, page 14. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

York Brown Bread — Into a quartern measure put : 3 tablespoonfuls sugar, 1 tablespoonful salt, 3 oz. of yeast, 2 tablespoonfuls treacle (dark brown), 4 tablespoonfuls melted lard or butter. Fill the measure up with lukewarm water. Add then 3 quarts of wholewheat flour

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