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Mixed Bread

A simple bread made with flour, salt, yeast, and cornmeal gruel, baked until golden.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Mixed Bread

Mixed Bread

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the dough

  1. In a large bowl, combine the flour, salt, and yeast.

  2. Add enough cornmeal gruel to form a soft dough.

  3. Let the dough rise until it has doubled in size.

Bake

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

  2. Bake the dough in pans or a mold until golden brown.

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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Explore the science

What each ingredient does

All-purpose flour
Forms the main structure of the dough once mixed with liquid.
Yeast
Produces gas that makes the dough rise and become airy.
Cornmeal gruel
Supplies the liquid that hydrates the flour into a soft dough.

The step that matters

Let the dough rise until doubled. Yeast needs time to produce enough gas to expand the dough. Rising too briefly leaves a dense loaf, so the dough should visibly double before baking.

“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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