Excellent Bread

The English bread-book · Eliza Acton · 1857
Source
The English bread-book
Yield
2.0 loaves
Status
success · extracted 11 days ago
Not a recipe
No
Ingredients (5)
Dough
For making into dough
Instructions (8)
  1. Combine flour, salt, brewer's yeast, and cold milk and water to form a sponge.
  2. Allow the sponge to rise for two hours, or until it has burst through the flour and risen much.
  3. Add about a quarter of a pint of warm water to the sponge and make into a firm dough.
  4. Let the dough rise for half to three-quarters of an hour.
  5. Divide the dough and lightly knead it into two loaves.
  6. Place the loaves in shallow, round baking dishes that have been rubbed with butter.
  7. Cover the dishes with a thick double cloth and place them on a tray.
  8. Send to a baker's oven, which is a quarter of a mile distant.
Original Text
placed on a table in a north room. It was left for two hours, when the sponge had quite burst through the flour, and risen much; and was immediately made into a firm dough, with the addition to the sponge of about a quarter of a pint of warm water. In from half to three-quarters of an hour it was divided, and very lightly kneaded up into two loaves; put into shallow, round baking dishes, previously rubbed with butter, placed on a tray, covered with a thick double cloth, and sent to a baker's oven, which was a quarter of a mile distant. This bread proved excellent. Flour, four pounds; salt, one teaspoonful; brewer's yeast (two days watered), one tablespoonful; cold milk and water, one pint: two hours. Warm water, one quarter of a pint; kneaded into firm dough: rising nearly three-quarters of an hour.
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