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To Make Brown Wheaten Bread

A loaf of bread made from whole wheat flour, water, yeast, and coarse sea salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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To Make Brown Wheaten Bread

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the dough

  1. Send the wheat to the mill and grind it entirely down, including the bran.

  2. Mix the ground meal with water, yeast, and coarse sea salt.

  3. Weigh the dough; it should be about 88 pounds.

  4. Divide the dough into 18 loaves.

Bake and cool

  1. Bake the loaves in a 400°F (200°C) oven until thoroughly baked.

  2. Remove the loaves from the oven and let them cool for 2 hours.

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Wheat
Provides the flour base and, with the bran included, the whole-grain structure and color of the bread.
Yeast
Ferments sugars in the dough, producing gas that makes the loaves rise and open up.
Water
Hydrates the flour so gluten can form, giving the dough its elasticity and moisture.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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