Mixed Bread

Put a tea-spoonful of salt, and a large one of yeast, into a quart of flour; make it sufficiently soft, with corn meal gruel; when well risen, bake it in a mould.

Original Recipe

Put a tea-spoonful of salt, and a large one of yeast, into a quart of flour; make it sufficiently soft, with corn meal gruel; when well risen, bake it in a mould. It is an excellent bread for breakfast. Indifferent flour will rise much better, when made with gruel, than with fair water.

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Instructions

  1. 1

    Put a tea-spoonful of salt, and a large one of yeast, into a quart of flour; make it sufficiently soft, with corn meal gruel; when well risen, bake it in a mould.

  2. 2

    It is an excellent bread for breakfast.

  3. 3

    Indifferent flour will rise much better, when made with gruel, than with fair water.

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Recipe by mary-randolph from The Virginia Housewife; Or, Methodical Cook (1824)