Florence White

Yeast Bread (another Recipe)

Somersetshire, 1892

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Medium

    • Ready in

      10 min

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By Florence White

Published 1932

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Ingredients

  • Plain flour 3 lb.
  • compressed yeast 1 oz. (or 2

Method

  1. Mix the salt with half the flour.
  2. Cream the yeast with the sugar and add it to a gill of tepid water (but be very careful the water is really tepid, neither hotter nor colder or your bread will be heavy).
  3. Put the unsalted flour into a warmer (but not hot) mixing bowl.
  4. Make a hole in the middle and pour in the yeast mixture.<