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Good Bread

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Good Bread

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pour boiling water gradually over flour, stirring to keep smooth.

  2. When cool, add yeast dissolved in water and let stand until very light.

  3. Add flour to make a stiff sponge and mix in salt.

  4. Once the sponge rises, knead until it doesn't stick to your hands.

  5. Divide into loaves and place in pans to rise for baking.

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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