The royal baker and pastry cook : $b A manual of practical cookery

before the mixing of the dough is begun. The fire must be looked to so as to secure a steady, moderate heat. Remember to mix the flour and Royal Baking Powder together before sifting, and sift thoroughly before wetting. =Royal Baking Powder Bread.=—1 quart flour, 1 teaspoon salt, ½ teaspoon sugar, 2 heaping teaspoons Royal Baking Powder,* ½ medium-sized cold boiled potato, and water. Sift together thoroughly flour, salt, sugar, and baking powder; rub in the potato; add sufficient water to mix smoothly and rapidly into a stiff dough, about the consistency of cake batter: about a pint of water to a quart of flour will be required—more or less according to the brand and quality of the flour used. Do not make a stiff dough as in yeast bread. Put the dough into a greased pan 4½ by 8 inches, and 4 inches deep, filling about half full. The loaf will rise to fill the pan when baked. Bake in very hot oven about 45 minutes, placing paper over first 15 minutes’ baking, to prevent crusting too soon on top. Bake immediately after mixing. * Perfect success can be had only with the Royal Baking Powder. =Household Bread.=—Sift twice together 1 quart of flour, 1 teaspoon salt, 2 heaping teaspoons Royal Baking Powder. Make a well in the center; add gradually sufficient cold liquid—water, milk, or equal quantities of each—to mix to a stiff batter or soft dough; this will require about 1 pint of liquid. Turn at once into a greased loaf-pan (fig. XII), smooth the top with a knife dipped in melted butter, and bake immediately in a moderate oven about 1 hour. When done take from the pan, moisten with the hand dipped in cold water, wrap in bread-cloth till cold. =Graham Unfermented Bread.=—1½ pints Graham flour, ½ pint flour, 1 tablespoon sugar, 1 teaspoon salt, 2 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder, 1¼ pints milk, or equal parts milk and water. Sift together Graham flour, flour, sugar, salt, and powder; add the milk, or milk and water; mix rapidly into soft dough, which put into greased tin