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Salt-rising Bread

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Salt-rising Bread

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix hot milk and cornmeal to form a stiff batter.

  2. Let the batter sit at blood heat for several hours until fermented.

  3. Combine the fermented batter with warm water and salt to make a stiff sponge.

  4. Mix thoroughly and allow to 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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