This slim document covers all the information anyone could ever need when it comes to learning how to bake bread and do it well. It is often considered that bread stands for all that supports the life of man. It is the most important of human food.
This document was created with the concept that if the baking of household bread can cease to be a matter of oral tradition, and the measures of quantity, and time, and heat, to be a matter of guess, a vast addition will have been made to general health and comfort.
Topics Include
- Mixing, kneading, and moulding
- The oven
- Brick oven
- Special cautions
- Sour bread
- Yeast
- Receipt for yeast
- Biscuits
- Receipt for biscuits
- Saleratus and baking powder
- Receipt for soda biscuits
