Name: The Reverend Mr Hogget's Economical Bread
Ingredients: 5 pounds coarse flake-bran; 4 gallons water; 56 pounds American flour; salt; yeast

The Reverend Mr Hogget's Economical Bread

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the bran-water

Boil the bran in more than 4 gallons of water until smooth.
Strain to obtain 3 gallons and 3 quarts of bran-water.

Make and bake the bread

Knead the flour with the bran-water, adding salt and yeast as for regular bread.
Divide the dough into loaves and bake for 2 hours and 30 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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Coarse flake-bran: Boiled and strained into the liquid, adding bulk and fiber to the dough.
American flour: Forms the main structure of the dough as gluten develops during kneading.
Yeast: Produces gas that makes the dough rise before and during baking.

“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.