Name: Receipt for Fermented Bread
Ingredients: 1 lb flour; 40 grains bicarbonate of soda; ½ pint cold water; 50 drops muriatic acid

Receipt for Fermented Bread

Ingredients

1 lb flour
40 grains bicarbonate of soda
½ pint cold water
50 drops muriatic acid

Directions

Mix the flour and bicarbonate of soda in a bowl.
Dissolve the muriatic acid in the cold water.
Combine the acid solution with the flour mixture.
Knead until well combined and let it rise before baking.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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Receipt for Fermented Bread