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To Make Bread with German Yeast

A yeast‑leavened bread made with German yeast, flour, salt, and cold water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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To Make Bread with German Yeast

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the yeast

  1. Dissolve the yeast in 3 tablespoons of cold water.

  2. Add the dissolved yeast to 1½ pints of slightly warm water.

Make the dough

  1. Pour the mixture into the flour and add the salt.

  2. Knead the dough well and let it stand for 1 hour.

Bake

  1. Bake at your preferred temperature.

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 dough's structure once wetted and kneaded.
Dried german yeast
Produces gas that makes the dough rise.

“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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