To Restore and Improve Flour
Ingredients
Directions
Combine the carbonate of magnesia with the musty flour thoroughly.
Leaven the mixture and bake it using the standard method for baking bread.
Bake until the bread rises well, is light and spongy, and has a white color.
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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What each ingredient does
- Musty flour
- Provides the structure that holds the bread's crumb together as it bakes.
“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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