air-raised

Updated: May 17, 2025

1-1/4 lb. fine wholemeal flour to 3/4 pint water. Put the meal into a basin, add the water gradually, and mix with a clean, cool hand. Prick with a fork on top. The colder the water used, the lighter the bread, and if the mixing be done by an open window so much the better, for unfermented bread is air-raised. Distilled or clean boiled rain-water makes the lightest bread.

Florence Daniel - The Healthy Life Cook Book, 2d ed.