Boston Brown Bread
From Crescent cook book, 1920
Presented as published in 1920. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from Crescent cook book (1920) by Ohio) Crescent Manufacturing Company (Fremont, page 4. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
BOSTON BROWN BREAD 2 cups Graham Flour 1 cup Corn Meal 1 cup Rye Meal 3 teaspoons Powder 1 level teaspoon Salt 1 small cup New Orleans Mo- lasses 1 pinch Soda Sufficient Sweet Milk to make very thin batter 14 cup Floured Raisins Place in buttered pan in kettle of cold wa- ter and steam three hours, then dry top in the oven, Crescent Baking CRESCENT NUT BREAD 14 cup Sugar teaspoon Mapleine rounding teaspoon Salt cups Milk cup chopped Walnuts cups Flour cups Graham Flour teaspoons Crescent Baking Powder Let the batter stand in bake pan one-half hour, then bake in moderate oven one hour, Very nice for sandwiches. Ny NNre NOR e CORN BREAD 114 pints Indian Corn Meal 14 -pint Flour 1 tablespoon Sugar 1 teaspoon Salt 2 heaping teaspoons Crescent Baking Powder 1 tablespoon Butter or Lard 1% pints Milk 2 Eggs Sift together corn meal, flour, sugar, salt and powder; rub in the shortening, add beaten eggs and the milk; mix into a moderately stiff batter; pour from bowl into shallow cake pan. Bake in moderate oven 30 min- oe Be MEASURE FLOUR AFTER SIFTING [PAGE TEN] BREAD AND ROLLS FRUIT ROLLS 1 quart Flour 1 teaspoon Salt 2 tablespoons Sugar 2 teaspoons Crescent Baking Powder 2 tablespoons Butter Cut fine one-fourth pound citron, seed and halve one-fourth pound raisins. Mix fruit evenly with dry ingredients, make to a firm dough with milk. Knead on board for a moment, divide into pieces size of egg, make into long rolls, lay one inch apart on flat greased pans, brush with milk. Bake in moderate oven, PARKER HOUSE ROLLS Prepare dough as for lunch rolls. Knead and roll out % inch thick. Cut into 3-inch circles. Press pen- cil down across middle of each; rub edges with soft butter. Double each, lay 11-inch apart on flat greased pans. Brush with milk, and bake in hot oven. If sweeten- ing is liked sprinkle granulated sugar over rolls before folding. ES [PAGE ELEVEN] BISCUITS daND BUNS MEASURE FLOUR AFTER SIFTING BAKING POWDER BISCUITS cups Flour teaspoons Crescent Baking Powder 1 heaping tablespoon of Lard 1 teaspoon Salt Sweet Milk enough to mix to soft dough. Bake twenty minutes Sweet milk enough to mix to soft dough. Bake twenty minutes, by bo CRESCENT BREAKFAST GEMS 2 cups Flour 1 teaspoon Crescent Powder 14 teaspoon Salt Add 114 cups Milk into which an Egg has been beaten Mix into soft batter, drop into well but- tered and heated gem pans and bake in a moderate oven, Baking BUTTERMILK BISCUIT 1 pint Flour 2 teaspoons Crescent Baking Powder 1 pinch Salt 2 level tablespoons Butter 23 cup of Fresh Buttermilk Sift with one pint of flour two level tea- spoons of Crescent Baking Powder and a pinch of salt. Work in two level tablespoons of butter. Mix with this two-thirds of a cup of fresh buttermilk. Roll out soft. Cut our with biscuit cutter and bake fifteen or twenty minutes in moderate oven, CREAM MUFFINS 1144 cups Flour lg teaspoon Salt 1 teaspoon Crescent Baking Powder 2 Eggs 14 cup melted butter 24 cup thin Cream Sift together the flour, salt and baking powder. Add the yolks of the eggs, melted putter and cream, and beat well. Last of all fold in the stiffly-beaten whites of the eggs and bake in greased muffin pans in a moder- ate oven about twenty minutes, HOT CROSS BUNS 14 teaspoon Salt 3. teaspoons Crescent Baking Powder
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