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The Rev. Mr. Hogget's Economical Bread

A simple bread made by boiling flour with water, adding bran, salt, and yeast, then kneading and baking.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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The Rev. Mr. Hogget's Economical Bread

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the bran-water

  1. Remove the coarse flake bran from the flour.

  2. Boil the flour in more than 4 gallons of water until smooth, yielding 3 gallons and 3 quarts of bran-water.

Knead and bake

  1. Knead 56 pounds of flour with the bran-water, adding salt and yeast as for other bread.

  2. Divide the dough into loaves and bake for 2 hours and 30 minutes.

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
Provides the starch and gluten-forming proteins that give the bread its structure.
Water
Hydrates the flour so gluten can form and gives the dough its moisture.
Yeast
Produces gas as it ferments, which leavens the dough and gives it rise.

The step that matters

Boiling the flour until smooth. Heating flour in water gelatinizes its starch, which thickens the liquid and binds water. If the mixture is not stirred until smooth, lumps of ungelatinized flour remain and the bran-water will not blend evenly into the dough.

“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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