Boston Brown Bread
From A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes, 1913
Serves 8
A 6-pound Crisco pail can be used for a mold. Sufficient for one loaf.
Presented as published in 1913. 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 A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes (1913) by Marion Harris Neil, page 51. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
1 teaspoonful salt ilk Mix and sift twice dry ingredients. Work in Crisco with finger tips, add gradually milk, mixing with knife to soft dough. Toss on floured board; pat and roll to one-half inch thickness. Shape with biscuit cutter. Place on Criscoed tin and bake in hot oven twelve minutes. To have good bis- cuits dough should be handled as little as possible, just enough to get in shape to cut. Muiulk or water used for mixing should be very cold, and biscuits should be gotten into oven at once after adding liquid to flour. If top of each biscuit is lightly brushed over with melted Crisco before baking, crust will be much nicer. Sufficient for fifteen biscuits. * Amount of baking powder may be increased if especially raised biscuits are desired. 2 teaspoonfuls, however, is most healthful amount. Best Jumbles 2 cupfuls sugar 3 tablespoonfuls milk 1 cupful Crisco 1 teaspoonful salt 4 eggs 3 teaspoonfuls baking powder 4 cupfuls flour 1 teaspoonful almond extract 1 teaspoonful rose extract Cream Crisco and sugar thoroughly together, then gradually add eggs well beaten, now add milk, extracts, flour, salt and baking powder. Mix a7 Breads, etc. and roll out lightly on floured baking board; cut into circles with dough- nut cutter, lay on Criscoed tins and bake in moderate oven from seven to ten minutes or till light brown. These cookies will keep fresh two weeks, and if milk is left out, a month. Sufficient for seventy jumbles. Boston Brown Bread 1 cupful ryemeal 1 cupful graham flour 2 tablespoonfuls Crisco 34 tablespoonful baking soda 1 cupful sugar \% teaspoonful salt 1 cupful cornmeal 34 cupful molasses 134 cupfuls sweet milk
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