Bread
Ingredients
Directions
Make a thick dough by mixing fine flour with water.
Wash the dough with a stream of water to remove the starch.
Knead the remaining grayish-yellow mass until it is tough and elastic.
Shape the dough into a loaf 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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