To Make French Breade

Item

Title

To Make French Breade

Date

en 1694/1795

Description

A recipe for a french bread, using flour, milk, butter, salt, yeast, and vinegar, baked in loafs.

Transcript

To Make French Breade

[inserted left margin: 20] Take half a peck of flower, seasen it with salt & a quart of milch, & a litele butter, warm it & put in youre meale, being made like a py, & put in 2 eggs half a spoune full of vinecere, mingle a litele your flowre with it, & a pint of [yest], and let it stand the fire to rise, then put in the rest of youre meal, & melted butter, for you were not to use half of it at the first, mix & make it in to a light paiste and let it stand by the fire an houre, to rise then make it up in to lofes and bake it—

Contributor

en Cheston, Jarissa
en Oberle, George
Le, Vincent

Source

Elizabeth Fairfax cookbook, Collection #C0202, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.

Publisher

George Mason University Libraries

Rights

Public domain. There are no known restrictions.