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Bread of Middlings or Unbolted Flour

A historical recipe from Miss Beecher's Housekeeper and Healthkeeper Containing Five Hundred Receipes for Economical and Healthful Cooking, by Catharine Esther Beecher (1873).

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A historical recipe

Miss Beecher's Housekeeper and Healthkeeper Containing Five Hundred Receipes for Economical and Healthful Cooking; also, Many Directions for Securing Health and Happiness, by Catharine Esther Beecher (1873). Project Gutenberg eBook #55734.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Ingredients 5 ingredients

  1. four quarts of coarse flour
  2. one quart of warm water
  3. one cup of yeast
  4. one spoonful of melted lard
  5. two cups of sugar

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Oven and hot trays. Use dry oven gloves for trays and dishes: a hot tray looks just like a cold one. Open the oven door away from your face and let the first rush of heat out.

Method

  1. Take four quarts of coarse flour, one quart of warm water, one cup of yeast, two tea-spoonfuls of salt, one spoonful of melted lard or butter, two cups of sugar or molasses, and half a tea-spoonful of soda.
  2. Mix thoroughly, and bake in pans the same as the bread of fine flour.
  3. It is better to be kneaded rather than made soft with a spoon.
  4. Bread raised with Water only.—Many persons like bread made either of fine or coarse flour, and raised with water only.
  5. Success in making this kind depends on the proper quantity of water, quick beating, the heating of very small pans, and very quick baking.
  6. There are cast-iron patties made for this purpose, and also small, coarse earthen cups.
  7. The following is the rule, but it must be modified by trying:

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
Source Public domain in the USA
Credit

From Miss Beecher's Housekeeper and Healthkeeper Containing Five Hundred Receipes for Economical and Healthful Cooking, by Catharine Esther Beecher (1873). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #55734 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55734). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

What was changed: As printed, from the book's text; Project Gutenberg's header and licence removed. Ingredient lines were read out of the text by a program. A historical recipe, not current advice.