Cooking for Two

A handbook for two at table, 1909 — Janet MacKenzie Hill scales the whole art of cookery down to the newlywed kitchen.

Flour Mixtures Continued: Bread and Other Yeast Mixtures

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Flour Mixtures Continued: Bread and Other Yeast Mixtures

THE INGREDIENTS FOR BREAD MAKING THE ingredients required for making yeast bread are: flour, yeast, salt and liquid. Sugar is sometimes…

Flour Mixtures Continued: Bread and Other Yeast Mixtures: Dough

KNEADING THE DOUGH Learn to knead dough without pushing the fingers into it or scattering flour, etc., over the table and floor. Keep the…

Flour Mixtures Continued: Bread and Other Yeast Mixtures: Shaping

SHAPING BREAD DOUGH Divide the dough made with one cup of milk into two pieces; knead each, one at a time, into a smooth, round ball; take…

Flour Mixtures Continued: Bread and Other Yeast Mixtures: Rolls

BAKING BREAD AND ROLLS Bread to be baked in individual portions requires a hotter oven than full-sized loaves. The general directions are…

Flour Mixtures Continued: Bread and Other Yeast Mixtures: Loaf

STORING BREAD Cool the bread when taken from the oven on a wire rack. When perfectly cold --after several hours -- set aside in a stone jar…

Flour Mixtures Continued: Bread and Other Yeast Mixtures: Knead

RYE BREAD (One loaf) 1 cup of scalded-and-cooled 1/3 to I whole cake of com- milk pressed yeast 1/2 teaspoonful of salt 1/4 cup of lukewarm…

Flour Mixtures Continued: Bread and Other Yeast Mixtures: Biscuit

ENTIRE WHEAT BISCUIT 1/4 cake of compressed yeast 1/2 teaspoonful of salt (to mix at night) 1/4 cup of melted shortening 1 cake of…

Flour Mixtures Continued: Bread and Other Yeast Mixtures: Soften

ZWIEBACK 1 cake of compressed yeast less) 1/4 cup of lukewarm water 1/2 teaspoonful of salt 1 cup of scalded milk (cooled) 1/4 cup of sugar…

Flour Mixtures Continued: Bread and Other Yeast Mixtures: White

KAISER SEMMELN For sponge 2 cups of boiled water 1 cake of compressed yeast 1 teaspoonful of salt 1/4 cup of lukewarm water Between 6 and 7…

Flour Mixtures Continued: Bread and Other Yeast Mixtures: Sandwiches

OLIVE SANDWICHES Chop a dozen olives; spread bread prepared for sandwiches with mayonnaise dressing or butter and then with the chopped…

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