Boston Brown Bread
From A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes, 1922.
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Ingredients
servings
Method
Mix and sift the dry ingredients together.
Dissolve the baking soda in 1 tablespoon of hot water, add it to the molasses, then add the milk.
Combine the liquid mixture with the dry ingredients.
Turn the batter into a greased mold until two-thirds full, grease the cover, and steam steadily for 3.5 hours.
Original recipe, verbatim
Boston Brown Bread
1 cupful ryemeal 1 cupful graham flour
2 tablespoonfuls Crisco ^ tablespoonful baking soda
1 cupful sugar ^ teaspoonful salt
1 cupful cornmeal ^ cupful molasses
If^ cupfuls sweet milk
Mix and sift ingredients. Dissolve soda with one tablespoonful hot
water, add to molasses, then add milk and mix with dry ingredients.
Turn into greased mold two-thirds full, grease cover, and steam steadily
three and a half hours. A 6-pound Crisco pail can be used for a mold.
Sufficient for one loaf.
Transcribed as printed in A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes, 1922. Spelling and punctuation are left as in the source scan.
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