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English Loaf Bread

4 servings

Ingredients

• 100 g Wheat flour
• 0.1 l Milk
• 0.1 l Water
• 1 tsp Salt
• 10 g Compressed yeast
• Water (for brushing) (a little)

Instructions

1. Dissolve salt and yeast in the lukewarm milk-water mixture and pour into a well in the center of the flour.
2. Stir with a wooden spoon to form a dough and let rise for two hours.
3. Then knead thoroughly and let rise for another hour and a half.
4. Fill the dough into floured, square molds (only three-quarters full), brush the top with water, and bake for three-quarters to one hour.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.