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Bread

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Bread

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Grind the darker portion of the crust to a coarse powder.

  2. Add enough water to the ground crust to make a mixture.

  3. Boil the mixture for some time, then cool and filter it.

  4. Divide the filtrate into four parts for testing.

  5. Add iodine solution to one part and note the result.

  6. Taste another part and explain the flavor.

  7. Add Fehling's solution to a third part and boil, then note the result.

  8. Pour a few drops of the fourth part into strong alcohol.

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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