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Economical Bread

A simple bread made by boiling bran in water, mixing with flour, salt, and yeast, then baking.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Economical Bread

Ingredients

Directions

Make the bran-water

  1. Boil the bran in water until smooth to create bran-water.

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

Make and bake the bread

  1. Knead the flour with the bran-water, salt, and yeast.

  2. Bake the bread as you would normally.

Refresh stale bread

  1. Heat stale bread in the oven for 20 minutes to refresh.

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's gluten network, giving the bread its structure.
Coarse flake bran
Absorbs water when boiled, adding moisture and a coarser, heavier texture.
Yeast
Produces gas as it ferments, which makes the dough rise.

“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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