Health Bread
From A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes, 1922.
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Ingredients
servings
Method
Mix the flours and bran together.
Add the melted Crisco, salt, sugar, well-beaten egg, milk, molasses, baking soda dissolved in hot water, and chopped dates.
Mix well together and turn into two greased and floured baking tins.
Bake in a moderate oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for one and a quarter hours.
Original recipe, verbatim
Health Bread
2 cupfuls flour 1 egg
3 tablespoonfuls melted Crisco 2 cupfuls milk
2 cupfuls whole wheat flour 1 cupful molasses
2 cupfuls bran 1 cupful stoned chopped dates
1 teaspoonful salt 2 teaspoonfuls baking soda
}4 cupful sugar }/2 cupful hot water
Mix flours and bran together, add Crisco, salt, sugar, egg well beaten,
milk, molasses, soda dissolved in boiling water, and dates. Mix well to-
gether and turn into two Criscoed and floured tins and bake in moderate
oven one and a quarter hours. This bread is excellent for constipation.
Sufficient for two loaves.
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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