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Salt-rising Bread

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Salt-rising Bread

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a sweet dish, stir together warm water and salt to create a thick batter.

  2. Beat the batter well and place the dish in a pan of warm water.

  3. Let it rise for 2 to 4 hours until nearly light.

  4. In a separate pan, mix milk and boiling water to make a sponge.

  5. When the sponge is warm, add the rising batter.

  6. Allow the sponge to rise for another 2 to 4 hours.

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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