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Bread Made with Wet Yeast

A simple bread made with flour, yeast, salt, and warm water or bran.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Bread Made with Wet Yeast

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine flour, yeast, salt, and enough warm water or bran to form a soft dough.

  2. Let the dough rise once, then knead it into separate loaves.

  3. For best results, mix the dough in the morning and bake in the afternoon.

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Flour
Forms the gluten network that gives the bread its structure.
Yeast
Produces gas that makes the dough rise and become light.

“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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