Corn Bread

Ingredients

• four cups of corn meal
• two cups wheat flour
• one cup of sweet milk
• two cups of sour milk
• one tablespoonful of shortening
• one heaping teaspoonful of soda
• one tablespoonful of salt
• one half cup sugar

Method

1. 1

   Steam for two hours; bake for one.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Dora's cook book (1888) by Dora E. Fairfield, page 32. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CORN BREAD. Two egos well beaten, one cup sugar, half cup butter, one cup sweet milk, half cup wheat flour, one and one half cups corn meal, two teaspoonfuls baking powder. OATMEAL BREAD. One half pint oatmeal, one and one-half pints flour, one saltspoonful of salt, three teaspoonfuls baking powder, three-fourths pint milk ; boil the oatmeal in one pint and a half salted water for one hour. Then dilute it with the milk. Set aside to get perfectly cool. Sift together flour, salt, powder, and when the oatmeal preparation is coldiplace it ina bread bowl; add it to the flour, etc. ; YEAST AND BREAD. : a 111 mix smoothly together, pour from the bowl into the greased tin, and bake in a moderate oven three-fourths an hour ; protect the loaf with paper first twenty minutes. RYE BREAD. One pint rye flour, one-half pint corn meal, one-half pint wheat flour, one teaspoonful sugar, one teaspoonful of salt, two teaspoonfuls baking powder, one tablespoon- ful of lard, three-fourths pint milk. Sift together rye flour, corn. meal, flour, sugar, salt, and powder ; rub in the lard cold ; add milk, mix into smooth batter, as for cake ; pour into a well-greased-tin, bake in moderate oven forty- five minutes. Protect loaf with paper first twenty minutes. CEREALINE BROWN BREAD. Two cups cerealine, one cup graham flour, one-half cup molasses, one teaspoonful of salt, one cup rye meal, two cups sour milk, one teaspoonful of soda. Add the soda and salt to the sour milk; stir all the dry ingredients to- gether; pour over all the milk and molasses, and mix thoroughly ; put into a well-greased bread mould, and steam five hours constantly, and when water is added to the steamer, be sure it is boiling hot. CORN BREAD. Four cups of corn meal, two cups wheat flour, one cup of sweet milk, two cups of sour milk, one tablespoonful of shortening, one heaping teaspoonful of soda thoroughly 112 DORA’S COOK BOOK. dissolved in the sour milk, one tablespoonful of salt, one half cup sugar

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