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• Importance Of Bread As Food
  Importance Of Bread As Food BREAD is sometimes defined as any form of baked flour, but as the word is commonly understood it means only those forms of baked flour which contain some leavening...
  
  
• Bread Making Ingredients
  Bread Making Ingredients Possibly the first essential to a correct knowledge of bread making is familiarity with the ingredients required. These are few in number, being merely flour, liquid, which...
  
  
• Basics About Wheat
  Basics About Wheat SPRING, OR HARD WHEAT is so named because it is sown in the spring of the year and is very tough or firm. Before this variety was known, the wheat used for bread making was not...
  
  
• Basics About Flour
  Basics About Flour MILLING OF WHEAT FLOUR.--Great advances have been made in the production of flour from wheat, and these are very good evidence of man's progress in the way of invention. The...
  
  
• Basics About Yeast
  Basics About Yeast NATURE AND ACTION OF YEAST.--How yeast came to be discovered is not definitely known, but its discovery is believed to have been purely accidental. Some mixture of flour and liquid...
  
  
• Milk And Fat And More Basics
  Milk And Fat And More Basics MILK AND FAT IN BREAD Milk is sometimes used as a part or as all of the liquid in bread. While it adds nutritive value and is thought by many persons to improve the...
  
  
• Acquiring Skill In Bread Making
  Acquiring Skill In Bread Making The nature and the quality of the ingredients required to make bread, as well as the utensils that are needed for this purpose, being understood, it is next in order...
  
  
• Making The Dough Preliminary
  Making The Dough Preliminary The first step in bread making, and without doubt the most important one, is the making of the dough. It consists in moistening the flour by means of a liquid of some...
  
  
• Care Of The Rising Dough
  Care Of The Rising Dough PURPOSE OF RISING.--Rising is an important part of the process of bread making, no matter which method is employed. In a sponge, its purpose is to blend the ingredients after...
  
  
• Kneading And Shaping The Dough
  Kneading And Shaping The Dough PURPOSE OF KNEADING.--As has been pointed out, it is necessary to knead dough one or more times in the making of bread, the number of kneadings depending on the method...
  
  
• Baking The Bread
  Baking The Bread PURPOSE OF BAKING.--The various processes in the making of bread that have been considered up to this point may be successfully carried out, but unless the baking, which is the last...
  
  
• About Scoring The Bread
  About Scoring The Bread OBJECT OF SCORING BREAD.--By the scoring of bread is meant simply the judging of its qualities. Persons who understand what good bread is agree very closely on the qualities...
  
  
• Getting Started With Bread Recipes
  Getting Started With Bread Recipes In order that the beginner may bring into use the bread-making principles and directions that have been set forth, and at the same time become familiar with the...
  
  
• Uses For Left Over Bread
  Uses For Left Over Bread Bread that has become stale need not be wasted, for there are many uses to which it may be put. As such bread has lost much of its moisture, it is desirable for toast, for it...
  
  
• Hot Breads In The Diet
  Hot Breads In The Diet Closely related to yeast breads, or those in which yeast is used as the leavening agent, are breads known as HOT BREADS, or QUICK BREADS. As these names indicate, such breads...
  
  
  • Hot Bread Leavening Agents
    Hot Bread Leavening Agents As has been pointed out, the ingredients that are actually required in the making of hot breads are flour, liquid, salt, and leavening, and to give variety to breads of...
    
    
  • Hot Bread Utensils
    Hot Bread Utensils PURPOSE OF UTENSILS The utensils required for the making of hot breads consist of two kinds: those in which the ingredients are prepared and combined to form the mixture and those...
    
    
  • Hot Bread Mixtures And Proportions
    Hot Bread Mixtures And Proportions BATTERS AND DOUGHS.--The mixtures from which hot breads are produced are of different consistencies, and familiarity with them is necessary if good results in the...
    
    
  • Baking Hot Bread Mixtures
    Baking Hot Bread Mixtures REGULATING THE OVEN.--When the ingredients have been properly combined, the mixture is ready to be baked. With the exception of waffles and griddle cakes, the baking of...
    
    
  • Baking Griddle Cakes
    Baking Griddle Cakes PROCEDURE IN BAKING GRIDDLE CAKES.--During the preparation of the batter for griddle cakes, have the griddle heating, so that it will be sufficiently hot when the cakes are ready...
    
    
• Baking Powder Biscuits
  Baking Powder Biscuits BAKING-POWDER BISCUITS.--The ability of the bread maker as a cook is very often judged by the biscuits they makes; but they are really very simple to make, and if recipes are...
  
  
• Basic Griddle Cakes
  Basic Griddle Cakes GRIDDLE CAKES (Sufficient to Serve Six) 3 c. flour 5 tsp. baking powder 1 tsp. salt 1/4 c. sugar 1 egg 2-1/4 c. milk 2 Tb. melted fat Mix and sift the flour, baking powder, salt,...
  
  
• Beaten Biscuits
  Beaten Biscuits BEATEN BISCUITS.--A form of hot bread known as beaten biscuits. Such biscuits are used very extensively in the South; in fact, they are usually considered typical of the South....
  
  
• Blueberry Or Date Muffins
  Blueberry Or Date Muffins BLUEBERRY MUFFINS.--Muffins containing blueberries can be made successfully only in blueberry season, but other fruit, as, for example, dates, may be used in place of the...
  
  
• Boston Brown Bread
  Boston Brown Bread BOSTON BROWN BREAD.--A hot bread that finds favor with most persons is Boston brown bread. Such bread, instead of being baked in the oven, is steamed for 3-1/2 hours. It may be...
  
  
• Bran Muffins
  Bran Muffins BRAN MUFFINS.--The particular value of bran muffins lies in the laxative quality that they introduce into the diet. In addition, they will be found to be very tasty and superior to many...
  
  
• Buckwheat Cakes
  Buckwheat Cakes BUCKWHEAT CAKES.--Buckwheat flour is used for griddle cakes more than for any other purpose. When used in this way it has a very typical flavor that most people find very agreeable....
  
  
• Coffee Cake
  Coffee Cake COFFEE CAKE.--When an especially good kind of biscuit that can be served for breakfast and eaten with coffee is desired, coffee cake made according to the following recipe should be used....
  
  
• Corn Bread
  Corn Bread CORN BREAD.--Corn meal is sometimes combined with wheat flour to make corn bread. Such a combination decreases the cost of bread at times when corn meal is cheap. Bread of this kind is...
  
  
• Corn Cake
  Corn Cake CORN CAKE.--Corn cakes were among the first breads made of cereal foods in America, being at first often made of only corn meal, water, and salt. These cakes of corn meal were prepared and...
  
  
• Corn Griddle Cakes
  Corn Griddle Cakes CORN GRIDDLE CAKES.--The addition of corn meal to a griddle-cake mixture adds variety and food value and produces an agreeable flavor. where corn meal is cheap, it is an economical...
  
  
• Corn Meal Muffins
  Corn Meal Muffins CORN-MEAL MUFFINS.--To many persons, corn-meal muffins, are more agreeable than plain white-flour muffins. Corn meal gives to muffins an attractive flavor and appearance and...
  
  
• Dinner Rolls
  Dinner Rolls DINNER ROLLS.--As their name implies, dinner rolls are an especially desirable kind of roll to serve with a dinner. They should be made small enough to be dainty, and as an even, brown...
  
  
• Graham Bread
  Graham Bread GRAHAM BREAD.--To lend variety to the family diet, frequent use should be made of graham bread, which contains even more bulk and mineral salts than whole-wheat bread. In bread of this...
  
  
• Graham Muffins
  Graham Muffins GRAHAM MUFFINS.--A pleasing variety in the way of muffins is produced by using part graham flour, but whole-wheat flour may be substituted for the graham flour in case it is preferred....
  
  
• Graham Nut Buns
  Graham Nut Buns GRAHAM NUT BUNS.--Buns made of graham flour and containing nuts are not only especially delightful in flavor, but highly nutritious. Because they are high in food value, they may be...
  
  
• Luncheon Rolls
  Luncheon Rolls LUNCHEON ROLLS.--If rolls smaller than dinner rolls are desired, luncheon rolls will undoubtedly be just what is wanted. Since these are very small, they become thoroughly baked and...
  
  
• Molasses Corn Cake
  Molasses Corn Cake MOLASSES CORN CAKE.--Molasses corn cake, just as its name indicates, is corn cake containing molasses. To those who find the taste of molasses agreeable, this recipe will appeal....
  
  
• Nut Loaf
  Nut Loaf NUT LOAF.--The use of nuts in a hot bread increases the food value and imparts a very delicious flavor. It is therefore very attractive to most persons, but it is not a cheap food on account...
  
  
• Nut Or Fruit Buns
  Nut Or Fruit Buns NUT OR FRUIT BUNS.--Nuts or fruit added to buns made of white flour provide more mineral salts and bulk, substances in which white flour is lacking. Buns containing either of these...
  
  
• Nut Puffs
  Nut Puffs NUT PUFFS.--An example of a thin batter not in equal proportions of liquid and flour is afforded by nut puffs. In hot breads of this kind, aeration is used as the leavening agent. In order...
  
  
• Parker House Rolls
  Parker House Rolls PARKER HOUSE ROLLS.--Of the various kinds of rolls, perhaps none meets with greater favor than the so-called Parker House rolls. Such rolls may be used in almost any kind of meal,...
  
  
• Pinwheel Biscuits
  Pinwheel Biscuits PINWHEEL BISCUITS.--To create variety, a baking-powder biscuit mixture may be made into pinwheel biscuits, a kind of hot bread that is always pleasing to children. Such biscuits,...
  
  
• Plain Muffins
  Plain Muffins PLAIN MUFFINS.--Perhaps the simplest form of muffin is the plain, or one-egg, muffin, and made according to the accompanying recipe. To a plain-muffin recipe, however, may be added any...
  
  
• Popover Recipes
  Popover Recipes POPOVERS.--A delightful change from the puffs, muffins, and biscuits that are usually served for breakfast or luncheon is afforded by means of popovers. Popovers are not difficult to...
  
  
• Rice Bread
  Rice Bread RICE BREAD.--Very often variety is given to bread by the addition of rice, which imparts an unusual flavor to bread and effects a saving of wheat flour. Oatmeal and other cereals may be...
  
  
• Rice Griddle Cakes
  Rice Griddle Cakes RICE GRIDDLE CAKES.--If a change in the ordinary griddle cakes that are used for breakfast is desired, rice griddle cakes should be tried. Besides lending variety, the addition of...
  
  
• Rice Muffins
  Rice Muffins RICE MUFFINS.--Rice may be combined with white flour in the making of muffins if variety is desired. As rice used for this purpose is added hot, it may be cooked either purposely for the...
  
  
• Rye Bread
  Rye Bread RYE BREAD.--Rye bread has a typical flavor that many persons enjoy. When rye flour is used alone, it makes a moist, sticky bread; therefore, in order to produce bread of a good texture,...
  
  
• Salt Rising Bread
  Salt Rising Bread SALT-RISING BREAD.--Recipes for bread would be incomplete if mention were not made of salt-rising bread. Such bread differs from ordinary bread in that the gas that causes the...
  
  
• Soft Gingerbread
  Soft Gingerbread SOFT GINGERBREAD.--As a hot bread for breakfast, soft gingerbread is very satisfactory, and with or without icing it may be served as cake with fruit for luncheon. Sweet milk and...
  
  
• Sour Milk Griddle Cakes
  Sour Milk Griddle Cakes SOUR-MILK GRIDDLE CAKES.--Very delicious griddle cakes may be made by using sour milk and soda for the liquid and leavening instead of sweet milk and baking powder. Besides...
  
  
• Southern Corn Cake
  Southern Corn Cake SOUTHERN CORN CAKE.--In the preceding recipe for corn cake, more flour than corn meal is used, but many persons prefer cake of this kind made with more corn meal than flour....
  
  
• Sweet Buns
  Sweet Buns SWEET BUNS.--Persons who prefer a sweet bun will find buns made according to the following recipe very much to their taste. The sweetening, eggs, and lemon extract used in this recipe give...
  
  
• The Toasts
  The Toasts As every one knows, toast is sliced bread browned by means of heat. To make toast is not a difficult process, but a certain amount of care must be exercised if good results are desired....
  
  
• Waffle Recipes
  Waffle Recipes PROCEDURE IN BAKING WAFFLES.--The procedure in making waffles is very similar to that in making griddle cakes. While the waffle mixture is being prepared, heat the waffle iron. Then...
  
  
• White Bread
  White Bread WHITE BREAD.--Bread made from white flour, which is commonly referred to as white bread, is used to a much greater extent than any other kind, for it is the variety that most persons...
  
  
• Whole Wheat Bread
  Whole Wheat Bread WHOLE-WHEAT BREAD.--Bread made out of whole-wheat flour has a distinctive flavor that is very agreeable to most persons. This kind of bread is not used so extensively as that made...
  
  
• Whole Wheat Fruit Bread
  Whole Wheat Fruit Bread WHOLE-WHEAT FRUIT BREAD.--A very delicious whole-wheat bread is produced by combining fruit, which, besides improving the flavor, adds to the food value of the bread. Thin...
  
  
• Whole Wheat Puffs
  Whole Wheat Puffs WHOLE-WHEAT PUFFS.--Puffs in which use is made of whole-wheat flour instead of white flour are also an example of a thin batter that is made light by aeration. If desired, graham...
  
  
• Whole Wheat Rolls
  Whole Wheat Rolls WHOLE-WHEAT ROLLS.--Rolls made of whole-wheat flour are not so common as those made of white flour, and for this reason they appeal to the appetite more than ordinary rolls....
  
  
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