Student's Manual in Household Arts

Cooking as it was taught in 1915 — lesson by lesson, with the questions and the home-work forms the students filled in.

Bread Making

6 pages in this part of Student's Manual in Household Arts.

Bread Making (Some form is more widely used)

Bread in some form is more widely used than any other food except milk. In some sections of the world, bread constitutes almost the sole…

Bread Making: Yeast

The use of yeast as a leavening agent is thousands of years old. A microscopic examination of some bread made over 4400 years ago in Egypt…

Bread Making: Pour

Ex. 1. Pour one-half cup of cold water into one glass of yeast and molasses and set it into the ice box or out of the window if the weather…

Bread Making: Kneading

Kneading breaks them up into small bubbles of uniform size. It is also kneaded (2) To develop the gluten. We find in wheat flour two…

Bread Making: Trial

Kind and amount of Flour. • Kind and amount of Liquid Score 1 2 3 Perfect Trial Trial Trial Kind and amount of Yeast..

Bread Making (Morning add the egg)

6. In the morning add the egg well-beaten and cook the same as plain griddle cakes.

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