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The Reverend Mr. Haggel’s Economical Bread

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

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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The Reverend Mr. Haggel’s Economical Bread

Ingredients

Directions

Make the bran-water

  1. Boil the bran in more than 4 gallons of water until smooth.

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

Make and bake the bread

  1. Knead the flour with the bran-water, adding salt and yeast as for other bread.

  2. Divide the dough into loaves.

  3. Bake the loaves 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.

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What each ingredient does

Coarse flake bran
Boiled into the water to release a smooth, thick liquid that moistens the dough.
American flour
Forms the gluten network that gives the loaves their structure.
Yeast
Produces gas that makes the dough rise and become airy.

“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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