Last updated on July 8th, 2025
This Natural Food Cookery (1955), is a charming leaflet cookbook featuring all-natural wholesome, old-fashioned cooking and baking. This vintage cookbook focuses on simple, minimally processed ingredients like whole grain flours, sweetener swaps like sorghum instead of sugar, and carob as a natural chocolate alternative.
From wholegrain meals, to baked goods, and beverages, this cookbook is filled with all natural recipes. Check out these hearty recipes for pancakes, waffles, breads, and molasses cookies. I grew up eating natural foods, as we were part of a food co-op, so this cookbook and recipes resonate with me. Many of my current bakery recipes follow these wholesome guidelines. If your a fan of sourdough bread recipes, here is one for Sour Rye Bread (Pumpernickel).
Sourdough Pumpernickel Bread
Equipment
- 3 bread pan
Ingredients
SOUR DOUGH STARTER
- 1 cake compressed yeast
- 2 ½ cups warm potato water or plain warm water
- 3 cups unsifted wholegrain rye flour
- 4 cups warm water
BREAD
- 1 tablespoon sea salt
- 3 tablespoons raw sugar
- 1 tablespoon anise seed
- 3 tablespoons caraway seeds
- 3 cups wholegrain rye flour
- 3 cups wholegrain unbleached flour
- 3 cups wholegrain wheat flour (bread)
Instructions
SOUR DOUGH STARTER
- Make a sour dough as follows: ½ cake compressed yeast dissolved in warm potato water or plain warm water. Stir in unsifted wholegrain rye flour and let dough set either overnight or during the forenoon in a warm place. It must rise and fall and get sour.
- Beat down and add 4 cups warm water to which the other half of the yeast cake has been added.
BREAD
- All flours are UNSIFTED. I dip the cup in the sack, shake it off level and put it in the sifter and l⅗ cups unsifted flour equals 2 cups sifted, so observe whether recipe calls for one or the other.
- Make a fairly stiff dough, adding more wholegrain flour if needed, mix and let double in bulk in warm place.
- Knead and shape into 3 loaves.
- Let rise and bake 10 minutes at 425 degrees, then 50 minutes at 300 degrees.
- Have a pan of hot water in the bottom of the oven while baking. Remove'when done and cool on a rack.
- Bottoms of pan may be sprinkled with poppy seeds if desired.
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