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Economical Bread

A simple bread made by boiling bran, mixing with flour, and adding salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Economical Bread

Ingredients

Directions

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

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

  3. Knead the flour with the bran-water.

  4. Add coarse sea salt to taste.

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 gluten network that gives the bread its structure and chew.
Coarse flake bran
Absorbs water and adds fiber, giving the dough its texture and body.

The step that matters

Strain to the measured volume of bran-water. The amount of liquid sets the dough's hydration. Too much water makes the dough slack and hard to shape, while too little leaves it stiff and dense, so the volume should match the recipe.

“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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