Brown Bread

Ingredients

• one even cup of Indian meal
• two heaping cups of rye meal
• one teaspoonful of salt
• one of soda
• one cupful of molasses
• one pint of hot water

Method

1. 1

   Mix meal, salt, and soda.

2. 2

   Pour hot water into molasses, stir, and combine with the meal mixture.

3. 3

   Boil for three hours, then bake for ten minutes.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The universal cookery book (1887) by Gertrude Strohm, page 60. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BROWN BREAD, HOT CAKES, ETC. BROWN BREAD, HOT CAKES, ETC. Margaret seated herself on the door-step to eat her supper, con- sisting of toasted brown bread and watered cider, served in a curiously wrought cherry bowl and spoon. The family were taking their meal in the kitchen. The sun had gone down. The whippoorwill came and sat on the butternut, and sang his evening note, always plaintive, always welcome. The night-hawk dashed and hissed through the woods and the air, on slim, quivering wings. A solitary robin chanted sweetly a long time from the hill. Myriads of insects revolved and murmured over her head. Crickets chirped in the grass and under the decaying sills of the house. She heard the voice of the waterfall at the Outlet, and the croaking of a thousand frogs in the Pond. She saw the stars come out, Lyra, the Northern Crown, the Serpent. She looked into the heavens, she opened her ears to the dim evening melodies of the universe ; yet as a child. She was interrupted by the sharp voice of her mother, “ Go to your roost, Peggy ! ” “Yes, Molly dear,” said her father, very softly, “ Dick and Robin are asleep : see who will be up first, you or the silver rooster ; who will open your eyes first, you or the dandelion ? ” — Margaret : Syl- vester Judd. (By per. Roberts Brothers.) Brown Bread. Make ready : one even cup of Indian meal ; two heaping cups of rye meal ; one teaspoonful of salt, and one of soda, mixed together with the sifted meal in a large bowl ; one cupful of molasses, in a quart measure or small bowl, with spoon ; a large beat- ing spoon ; palette-knife, to scrape your mixture from the bowl; a tin bread or pudding boiler, well buttered. Stir the meal, salt, and soda, dry, until thoroughly mingled.. Pour one pint of hot water

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.