Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers by Elizabeth E. Lea
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When all is taken out, fill the oven with wood ready for the next
baking. There is nothing in any department of cooking that gives more satisfaction to a young housekeeper than to have accomplished what is called a good baking. Graham Bread. Take six quarts of unbolted flour, one tea-cup of good yeast, and six spoonsful of molasses; mix them with a pint of milk, warm water, and a tea-spoonful of salaeratus; make a hole in the flour and stir this mixture in it, till it is like batter; then proceed as with fine flour. Mould it, when light, into four loaves Have your oven hotter than for other bread, and bake it fully one hour and a half. It is an excellent article of diet for dyspeptic and sedentary persons. Dyspepsy Bread. This is three-fourths unbolted flour, and the remaining fourth common flour, and is risen and made as other light bread, but should be baked rather more. Yeast. It is important to those that make their own bread, to make their own yeast, or they cannot judge of its strength. The best is the |
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