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Entire Wheat Bread

Entire Wheat Bread as recorded by Fannie Farmer, with the historic ingredient list transcribed for reference.

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What you’ll need

Ingredients

  • 2 cups scalded milk
  • ¼ cup sugar or
  • ⅓ cup molasses
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 yeast cake dissolved in
  • ¼ cup lukewarm water
  • 4⅔ cups coarse entire wheat flour

Make it happen

Directions

  1. 1

    Add sweetening and salt to milk; cool, and when lukewarm add dissolved yeast cake and flour; beat well, cover, and let rise to double its bulk. Again beat, and turn into greased bread pans, having pans one-half full; let rise, and bake. Entire Wheat Bread should not quite double its bulk during last rising. This mixture may be baked in gem pans.

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