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Leavened Brown Bread

From Banquets of the nations, 1911

Serves 12

If for Europeans, all the meal must be wheat.

A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record

Ingredients

  • four pounds of whole meal
  • two ounces of butter
  • a little salt
  • three ounces of yeast
  • sufficient luke-warm water to make a nice size of dough

Method

  1. Prepare a sponge with the ingredients, set the dough to rise for one hour, knead it well, form it into shapes, and bake in a good oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Banquets of the nations (1911) by Robert H. Christie, page 12. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Leavened Brown Bread. Prepare a sponge with four pounds of whole meal (half wheat and half rye), two ounces of butter, a little salt, and three ounces of yeast, and sufficient luke-warm water to make a nice size of dough

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