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Loaf Bread

Ingredients

• 1 pound of flour
• 3 teaspoonfuls of baking powder
• 1 saltspoonful of salt
• 1 teaspoonful of fine sugar
• sweet milk

Instructions

Sift together two or three times the flour, baking powder, salt, and sugar; mix with enough cold sweet milk to make the dough of the consistency of biscuit; or, if you have no milk, use cold water. Work the dough only long enough to incorporate the flour well with the milk or water; put it into a baking-pan buttered and slightly warmed, and set it immediately into a hot oven; after about five minutes cover it with paper so that the crust may not form so quickly as to prevent rising; bake about three-quarters of an hour. This bread is sweet and wholesome, and may be eaten by some persons whose digestion is imperfect, with greater safety than yeast-fermented bread.

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Source

The Cooking Manual of Practical Directions for Economical Every-Day Cookery (1877).