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Germ Flour Bread

Bread made from germ flour, yeast, and warm water.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Make the dough

  1. Dissolve the yeast in the warm water.

  2. Mix the dissolved yeast with the germ flour until combined.

  3. Let the mixture rest for about 1.5 hours to rise.

  4. Weigh the dough.

Bake

  1. Proceed with baking.

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

Yeast
Produces gas that makes the dough rise and become airy.
Germ flour
Provides the main structure of the dough as it hydrates and develops.

“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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