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Cheap Bread

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

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

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the bran

  1. Remove the coarsest flake bran from the flour.

  2. Boil the bran in the water.

Make the dough

  1. Strain the bran mixture and let it cool to a proper warmth.

  2. Mix the strained liquid with flour to make the dough.

  3. Bake the bread as usual.

Renew the bread

  1. To renew bread after 9 or 10 days, 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

Coarse bran
Adds fiber and body, and absorbs water to give the bread a dense, coarse texture.
Flour
Forms the gluten network that gives the dough its structure.

“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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