Boston Brown Bread

Ingredients

• two cups Indian meal
• two cups rye or graham flour
• one-half cup molasses
• one-half cup yeast
• one teaspoon salt
• one teaspoon saleratus

Method

1. 1

   Mix with warm water, not too stiff.

2. 2

   Let rise and steam three hours.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 10 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The New century cook book (1899), page 3. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one-half cup molasses, one and one-half teaspoon soda. Steam two and one-half hours, then put in oven for fifteen minutes. Boston Brown Bread. One quart of corn meal and one quart of rye or graham flour, put through sieve together. Add one quart sour milk, one teaspoonful of salt, two even teaspoonfuls of soda, dissolve salt and soda in one-half cup of water, one teacup of molasses. Steam three or four hours, longer the better. Boston Brown Bread. Three cups of sour milk, one cup of molasses, one and one half cups of Indian meal, one and one half cups of flour, two teaspoonfuls saleratus, dissolved in milk. Salt to taste. Mix all together, then steam four hours, and put in oven and brown fifteen minutes. Mrs. Watson. Boston Brown Bread. Two cups Indian meal, two cups rye or graham flour, one- half cup molasses, one-half cup yeast, one teaspoon salt, one teaspoon saleratus

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