Skip to content

Beta This app is in Beta Testing

French Split Bread

From Baker's Bread (1918).

No ratings yet

A historical recipe

Baker's Bread, by Paul Richards (1918).

France

Known as a French recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

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

Ingredients 1 ingredient

  1. six ounces of salt

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. Make a straight dough, rather firm, with one pail of ferment and six ounces of salt;
  2. use no sugar or lard;
  3. let the dough come up well and work over;
  4. give it a start;
  5. then scale and mould on the bench;
  6. form into long loaves, in Vienna shape, split, set in cloths, prove and bake.
  7. A very nice French split is made in some Chicago bakeries out of a Vienna mixture in which half milk is used.

Plating

Source not stated by archive.org
Credit

From Baker's Bread (1918), printed page 27, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/bakersbread00richgoog

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.