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To Make Bread Without Yeast

A simple no-yeast bread made by mixing flour, salt, baking powder, water, kneading, forming balls, and boiling or steaming.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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To Make Bread Without Yeast

Ingredients

Directions

Make the dough

  1. In a bowl, mix the flour, salt, and baking powder.

  2. Add water gradually to form a light, firm dough.

  3. Knead the dough quickly with floured hands.

  4. Shape the dough into balls the size of small eggs.

Cook and serve

  1. Plunge the balls into boiling water and cook for about 20 minutes until done.

  2. Alternatively, place them in a steamer above boiling water and steam until cooked.

  3. Serve with meat and gravy, or with treacle or sugar.

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-based structure that holds the dough and dumplings together.
Baking powder
Releases gas during cooking so the dough rises and becomes light.

The step that matters

Knead the dough quickly with floured hands. Kneading briefly develops just enough gluten to hold the dough together. Overworking it makes the dough tough and dense, so the bread loses its lightness.

“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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