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The Rev. Mr. Hogget's Economical Bread

A simple bread made with flour, water, salt, and yeast, using bran water for moisture.

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

  1. Remove the coarse flake bran from the flour.

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

Make 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 2.5 hours.

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
Forms the dough structure as its proteins develop into gluten during kneading.
Yeast
Produces gas that makes the dough rise and gives the bread its light texture.

“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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