Brown Bread

Ingredients

• One quart of sour milk
• one-half cup of molasses
• one-half cup of sugar
• two eggs
• three tablespoons of melted butter
• one teaspoon of soda

Method

1. 1

   Mix with brown flour as stiff as you can stir it with a spoon.

2. 2

   To make gems or puffs for breakfast, use a little less flour and bake in muffin rings or gem pans.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mother Hubbard's cupboard (1887), page 11. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BROWN BREAD. Three cups corn meal, two cups brown flour, one cup mo- lasses, little salt, one teaspoon saleratus, three and one-half cups warm water. Steam two and one-half hours. Mrs. M. K. W. RYE BREAD. One pint rye meal, one pint Indian meal, one cup molasses, one teaspoon saleratus, one teaspoon salt, two cups sour milk. Mix the rye, Indian, salt and saleratus together ; put in the molasses and mix with the milk. Steam four hours. Mrs. Woodbury. BROWN BREAD. One quart of sour milk, one-half cup of molasses, one-half cup of sugar, two eggs, three tablespoons of melted butter, one teaspoon of soda

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