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Gluten Bread

A simple bread made from gluten flour, water, and optional salt, baked at high temperature.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Gluten Bread

Gluten Bread

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Mix gluten flour with water until combined.

  2. Immediately place the dough into tins.

Bake

  1. Bake in a preheated oven at 430°F for 1.5 hours for loaves or 45 minutes for rolls.

  2. Add a little salt to improve flavor if desired.

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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Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Gluten flour
Forms the protein network that gives the bread its structure and chew.
Water
Hydrates the gluten proteins so they can bind into a cohesive dough.

“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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