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Brown Bread with Mush

From The new practical housekeeping, 1890

Serves 9

Cover with thick paper for the first half hour of baking.

Presented as published in 1890. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record

Ingredients

  • two quarts hot corn meal mush
  • two quarts Graham flour
  • quart sponge
  • coffee-cup molasses
  • teaspoon salt
  • half teaspoon soda
  • half pint more flour

Method

  1. Mix hot corn meal mush with Graham flour.

  2. When cool, add sponge, molasses, salt, and soda.

  3. Mix well, place in small pans, let rise, and bake in a moderate oven for an hour and a half.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new practical housekeeping (1890) by Estelle Woods Wilcox, page 21. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Brown Bread with Mush. — Pour two quarts hot corn meal mush, made a?s for eating, over two quarts Graham flour (wheat may he used) ; when nearly cool add quart sponge, coffee-cup molasses^ teaspoon salt, half teaspoon soda ; mix well together with a wooden padale or the hands and add half pint more flour

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