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Economical Wheaten Bread

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Economical Wheaten Bread

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil 5 pounds of bran in more than 4 gallons of water until smooth.

  2. Pour 3 gallons and 3 quarts of clear bran water into a mixing bowl.

  3. Add 46 pounds of brown flour, salt, and yeast to the bran water.

  4. Knead the mixture until well combined.

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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