The main difference between using modern yeast and sourdough yeast is that the rising process takes longer and it imparts more flavour to the bread. The recipe used a modern dried yeast as brewers yeast which was used commonly in medieval times to make bread is not easy to obtain and I had recently lost my sourdough culture through lack of use (reason being I am intolerant of gluten). It was also a nice dough to work and rose tremendously big. Again I used a recipe from Peter Brierly’s book. Cheat was made from wheat flour that had the worst of the bran (skin of the wheat seed) sieved out. It was absolutely delicious and ‘Mmmm’ was the only noise to be heard as we munched on the still warm buttered bread. It’s enticing smell filled the house and when they were baked, we could not resist cutting one to try. It was a wonderful dough to work with and it rose beautifully. Although I learnt to make bread purely by hand, I admit to cheating and using my Kenwood mixer as I was making such a quantity of bread, to save me time and my muscles from getting tired. Her recipe is a modernised version of a 17th century recipe for manchets by Lady Arundel. I used a recipe from Peter Brierly’s wonderful book ‘Cooking & dining in Medieval England’ although Elizabeth David also has a recipe for Manchets in her 1977 book ‘English Bread and Yeast Cookery’, hers is for a richer recipe requiring butter and milk. The rich had various different loaves, manchets a type of large roll were the first bread that I baked. ![]() ![]() The flour would have to be sieved several times to achieve a fine white flour. The whiter the wheat bread, the higher status and more costly it would be. Wheat bread was largely a preserve of the wealthier folk of society. As part of the display we bake some medieval breads to show the public so on Thursday last I set about baking some of the breads that we need.Īs nowadays, there was a vast array of different breads in medieval times, although not every bread was available to every pocket. Last weekend we were running our medieval milling display at Dover Castle in Kent.
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