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Bran Bread

Ingredients

• 3 quarts of unbolted wheat meal
• 1 jill of strong yeast
• 1 jill of molasses
• 1 small tea-spoonful of pearl-ash or sal-aratus

Instructions

Sift into a pan the unbolted wheat meal. Stir yeast and molasses into a quart of soft water, (which must be warm but not hot,) and add pearl-ash, or sal-aratus. Make a hole in the heap of flour, pour in the liquid, and proceed in the usual manner of making bread. This quantity may be made into two loaves. Bran bread is considered very wholesome; and is recommended to persons afflicted with dyspepsia.

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Source

Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches (1840).