The Settlement Cook Book (1910) - Softcover

Kander, Mrs Simon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1594622566 ISBN 13: 9781594622564

Publisher: Book Jungle, 2006

Synopsis

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV BREAD, ROLLS AND TOAST GENERAL RULES FOR YEAST BREAD Flour should be kept in a dry atmosphere. It makes better bread if heated just before using. The yeast must be fresh. Scald the milk or water, then cool until lukewarm. The heat of the oven should be increased slightly the first twenty minutes, then kept even for twenty minutes, and the last twenty minutes it should decrease. Bread should be kept in a clean tin box, and not exposed to moisture. Yeast is a plant, the small, invisible germs of which are floating in the air. They settle in various places, and when they find a warm, moist, sweet, strength-giving or nitrogenous mixture, they begin to grow. Hot water kills the yeast plant; cold water chills it. Lukewarm liquids should be used. When the yeast plant grows it causes fermentation, which

About this edition

• Publisher: Book Jungle
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1594622566
• ISBN 13: 9781594622564
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 476