The 1918 Fanny Farmer Cookbook


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The 1918 Fanny Farmer Cookbook  
cook is  
to  
able to watch the dough while rising and keep it at uniform temperature. It is often desirable  
place bowl containing dough in pan of water, keeping water at uniform temperature of from  
9
5°  
to 100° F. Cooks who have not proved themselves satisfactory bread makers are successful  
when employing this method.  
4
2
Entire Wheat Bread  
2
cups scalded  
milk  
2
teaspoons salt  
1
1
/4 cup sugar or  
1
yeast cake  
dissolved in  
/3 cup molasses  
1
/4 cup lukewarm  
water  
4
2/3 cups coarse entire wheat flour  
Add sweetening and salt to milk; cool, and when lukewarm add dissolved yeast cake and  
flour;  
bulk  
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  
during last rising. This mixture may be baked in gem pans.  
4
3
German Caraway Bread  
Follow recipe for Milk and Water Bread , using rye flour in place of entire wheat flour, and  
one  
tablespoon sugar for sweetening. After first rising while kneading add one−third tablespoon  
caraway seed. Shape, let rise again, and bake in a loaf.  
4
4
Entire Wheat and White Flour Bread  
Use same ingredients as for Entire Wheat Bread, with exception of flour. For flour use three  
and  
be  
one−fourth cups entire wheat and two and three−fourths cups white flour. The dough should  
slightly kneaded, and if handled quickly will not stick to board. Loaves and biscuits should be  
shaped with hands instead of pouring into pans, as in Entire Wheat Bread.  
Chapter IV − BREAD AND BREAD MAKING  
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