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The Rev. Mr. Hagget’s Economical Bread

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

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Remove the coarse flake bran from the flour.

  2. Boil the bran in more than 4 gallons of water until smooth.

  3. Strain to obtain 3 gallons and 3 quarts of clear bran-water.

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

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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