Name: The Reverend Mr. Hogget's Economical Bread
Ingredients: 5 pounds of bran; 4 gallons of water; 56 pounds of brown flour; coarse sea salt (to taste)

The Reverend Mr. Hogget's Economical Bread

Ingredients

5 pounds of bran
4 gallons of water
56 pounds of brown flour
coarse sea salt (to taste)

Directions

Boil 5 pounds of bran in 4 gallons of water until perfectly smooth.
Pour 3 gallons and 3 quarts of clear bran-water into a mixing bowl.
Add 56 pounds of brown flour and salt to the bran-water.
Knead the mixture until well combined.

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.