The Bread and Biscuit Baker's and Sugar-Boiler's Assistant

A working baker's course from 1890 — bread, biscuits, gingerbreads and sugar-boiling, in three hundred numbered recipes.

Gingerbread and Shortbread

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made with potash, says Dr. Colquhoun, gives the bread a disagreeable alkaline flavour, unless disguised with some aromatic ingredient, and…

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