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Bread

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Bread

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a bowl, combine 1 cup of warm water with the yeast and whisk until well mixed.

  2. In another bowl, dissolve the salt in the remaining warm water.

  3. Gradually add both mixtures to the flour and knead until fully combined.

  4. Let the dough rise for 4 to 5 hours until it has doubled in size.

  5. Shape the dough into loaves and place them in a preheated oven.

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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