Diet Bread

The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New ... · Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady · 1840
Source
The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory;: In Which will Be Found a Large Collection of Original Receipts. 3rd ed.
Time
Cook: 60 min Total: 60 min
Status
success · extracted 13 days ago
Not a recipe
No
Ingredients (3)
Instructions (7)
  1. dissolve three quarters of a pound of lump sugar in a quarter of a pint of water
  2. boil the liquid sugar
  3. mix the boiled liquid sugar with the eggs
  4. beat the sugar and eggs together in a basin with a whisk for about ten minutes
  5. add the flour by degrees, beating all together
  6. put the mixture into a quick oven
  7. bake for an hour
Original Text
Diet Bread, which keeps moist. Three quarters of a pound of lump sugar, dissolved in a quarter of a pint of water, half a pound of the best flour, seven eggs, taking away the whites of two; mix the liquid sugar, when it has boiled, with the eggs: beat them up together in a basin with a whisk; then add by degrees the flour, beating all toge[228]ther for about ten minutes; put it into a quick oven. An hour bakes it. Tin moulds are the best: the dimensions for this quantity are six inches in length and four in depth.
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