Leavened Bread
Ingredients
Directions
Keep a piece of dough in a warm place until it ferments.
Mix the fermented leaven thoroughly with a quantity of fresh dough.
Allow the entire mixture to ferment uniformly for better results.
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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