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To Make Baker's Bread

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United States

Known as an American recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

  • Additives or old utensils. The text names something no longer considered safe in food or for cooking in, such as lead, alum, borax, bitter almonds or copper pans. Don't use it.

Ingredients 7 ingredients

  1. a gill of baker's yeast
  2. Dip
  3. Nutmeg
  4. a tablespoonful of salt
  5. one quart of warm water
  6. three pints or moieof warm water
  7. seven pounds of superfine wheat flour
Contains Gluten Read from the ingredients, not verified. Check labels.

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. To one quart of warm water, put a gill of baker's yeast, stir in the flour to make a thin batter, put it in a large pitcher or tin pail, and let it set in a large pan, in a warm place, all night.
  2. Early next morning, put seven pounds of superfine wheat flour into a wooden bowl or tray, heap it around the sides, leaving a hollow in the centre, dissolve a bit of volatile salts, the size of a small nutmeg, in a little hot water, and when it is cool, put it to the batter, pour it into the hollow of the flour ;
  3. powder a piece of alum the size of a very small hickory nut, make it as fine as flour, then stir it into the baiter, until it is a white foam, add to it a tablespoonful of salt, and gradually, three pints or moieof warm water with this;
  4. w-ork all the flour into a dough ;
  5. knead or work it with your two hands, until it is a smooth, shining paste, then strew a little flour over, spread a thick cloth over, and set it in a warm place for two hours, until it has risen to twice its first size, then dip your hands in flour, work it down fine and smooth, cover it, and set it near the fire for an hour ;
  6. knead it smooth again, make it in loaves, and bake according to their size, in a quick oven ;
  7. if the mass is divided in two loaves, they will require one hour's baking in a quick oven ;
  8. if divided in four, half an hour will be sufficient.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Mixing bowl
  • Wooden spoon