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Cheap Bread

A simple bread made from bran and flour, boiled and baked.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Cheap Bread

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the bran

  1. Remove the coarsest bran flakes from the flour.

  2. Boil the bran in water for 10 minutes.

  3. Strain the bran and let the water cool to a warm temperature.

Make and bake the bread

  1. Mix the warm bran water with flour to make the dough.

  2. Bake the bread in a moderate oven (350°F / 175°C).

Refresh stale bread

  1. To refresh stale bread, heat it in the oven for 20 minutes.

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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What each ingredient does

Bran
Adds fiber-rich bulk and a coarse, hearty texture to the loaf.
Flour
Forms the dough structure that holds the bread together as it bakes.

“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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