Name: A Good Family Brown Bread, Unfermented
Ingredients: 3 pounds wheat meal; ½ ounce muriatic acid; ½ ounce carbonate of soda; water (enough to achieve proper consistency)

A Good Family Brown Bread, Unfermented

Ingredients

3 pounds wheat meal
½ ounce muriatic acid
½ ounce carbonate of soda
water (enough to achieve proper consistency)

Directions

In a dry pan, mix the wheat meal and carbonate of soda thoroughly using a wooden spoon.
Pour the muriatic acid into the water and let it dissolve.
Combine the acid solution with the flour mixture and stir until well mixed.

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.