5. To make Rolls and other Breakfast Bread

The Modern Housewife · Soyer, Alexis · 1849

Source: The Modern Housewife
Status: success · extracted 12 days ago
Not a recipe: No

Ingredients (6)

four pounds of flour ↝ Flour, 00 [Cereal Grains and Pasta]
three parts of a pint of warm water ↝ Water, tap [Tap water]
a gill of white brewer’s yeast, free from bitter ↝ Yeast [Not included in a food category]
a little flour ↝ Flour, 00 [Cereal Grains and Pasta]
a little salt ↝ Salt, table, iodized [Spices and Herbs]
a pint of warm milk ↝ Milk, NFS [Milk, reduced fat]

Instructions (8)

Put four pounds of flour into an earthen pan, make a hole in the centre.
In the hole, put three parts of a pint of warm water, to which add a gill of white brewer’s yeast, free from bitter.
Mix a little flour to form a leaven.
Set the leaven in a warm place to rise until it has risen and begun to fall.
Add a little salt and a pint of warm milk.
Form the whole into a flexible dough.
Keep the dough in a warm place for another hour.
Mould the dough into the form of rolls, twists, little crusty loaves, or any shapes most pleasing for the breakfast-table.

Original Text

5. To make Rolls and other Breakfast Bread.—Put four pounds of flour into an earthen pan, make a hole in the centre, in which put three parts of a pint of warm water, to which you add a gill of white brewer’s yeast, free from bitter, mix a little flour to form a leaven, which set in a warm place to rise (it must be allowed to remain until the leaven has risen and begun to fall), then add a little salt and a pint of warm milk, form the whole into a flexible dough, which keep in a warm place for another hour; it is then ready, and may be moulded into the form of rolls, twists, little crusty loaves, or any shapes most pleasing for the breakfast-table.

Notes

—