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Method—Turn the flour into a clean pan, and make a "hay" or
hole in the centre—let the water be about 80° Fahr. or nearly blood
warm so that it feels neither hotter nor colder than the hand when
placed in the water. Put the water into a bowl, add the yeast and salt,
and stir up well with the hand until dissolved, then turn it into the bay
and make up into rather a stiff dough ; knead well and leave dry, cover
with a clean cloth, and set the pan of dough in a warm place to prove
for at least 2 hours, then give it another good kneading and drying over,
and leave it for another hour: turn out on to the board, divide into
suitable sized pieces, make into loaves, prove and bake in a moderate
oven. A 2-lb. loaf in a moderate oven will take from 20 to 40 minutes
and larger loaves in proportion.
Mixed Bread.
Take 4 lbs. of wheat flour (households or seconds) and mix with
4 lbs. of rye flour or Indian corn or maize flour in the pan; mix one
table-spoonful of salt well into the flour; add one quart of skim milk
and three pints of cold water and work it well into the flour. Now add
two teaspoonfuls of bicarbonate of soda dissolved in a little cold water.
Now knead up thoroughly until a nice smooth dough is obtained. Now
work into the dough a tablespoonful of melted lard or butter. Grease
enough bread tins to hold the dough, put it into the tins and steam for
two hours and then place tins in a fairly well heated oven for about one
hour.
If we wish to increase the nutritive value of home-made bread,
maize flour, coarsely and freshly ground, may be added in the proportion
of, say, one quartern of maize flour to one quartern of wheat flour,
either households or seconds.
Maize flour is cheaper than wheat flour, and is largely used in
Europe, America and South Africa, in a variety of ways. It was also
introduced into Ireland during the potato famine, and has since been
much in use. As maize lacks gluten it should be mixed with wheat
flour, this mixture making an excellent bread. Maize flour, by itself,
will make splendid tea cakes.
District Nursing.
The following is a list of the chief nursing bodies where district
nurses may be obtained :—
1. Ranyard Nurses, Central Office, Ranyard House, 25 Russell
Square. Eight of the Nurses live in different parts of the Borough.
2. Nurses of St. John the Divine in Watson Street. These
are connected with the Morden Hill Hospital, Blackheath.
3. Central Hall Nurses, High Street. Two in number.
4. St. John's Church Nurse.