Bread (Brown)

Instructions

1. Take about six pounds of meal, pour into it three cups of home-made yeast, and as much tepid water as will make it the consistency of dough.
2. Knead it well for a quarter of an hour, till your hand comes clean out of the dough.
3. Set it to rise in the pan in which you have mixed it, and cover it up well. Put it in the warmest corner of the kitchen.
4. It will be ready for making into loaves in two hours, and will then have a rather disagreeable odour and feel quite spongy.
5. Six pounds of meal will just fill an ordinary baking-pan for a moderate-sized stove oven.
6. Keep the stove well heated, and when the bread has been in the oven for an hour, turn the baking-tin round. Bread made in this way is generally very sweet and wholesome.