Name: First Prize Bread
Ingredients: one cake is enough; three large loaves

First Prize Bread

Ingredients

one cake is enough
three large loaves

Directions

‘I set my yeast the same as ordered in the excellent directions which accompany Breadmaker’s Yeast. I sponge in the same pan I set the yeast in, and it came up so quickly I soon had it out of the way. One cake is enough for three large loaves. As to the oven, I have it very hot at first, and let my bread get very light before putting it into the oven. Then I gauge the oven to put a light brown colour, and keep it just a moderate heat for one hour. They gave me a great puff at the fair over my bread made with this yeast.”

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. See the original page.