Dora's Brown Bread

Ingredients

• one quart corn meal
• one pint rye flour
• one teaspoonful salt
• four heaping teaspoonfuls baking powder
• half a tea-cupful molasses
• sweet milk enough to make a slack dough

Method

1. 1

   Mix all ingredients thoroughly together.

2. 2

   Then add half a teacupful of molasses and sweet milk enough to make a slack dough.

3. 3

   Divide into small loaves and bake immediately.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 8 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Dora's cook book (1888) by Dora E. Fairfield, page 33. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one teaspoonful salt, one-half teaspoonful soda. Stir the eggs into the milk ; then the meal, salt, butter, and, last of all, therice. Beat all three minutes and bake in shallow pans in a quick oven. | GRAHAM BREAD. Two quarts of unbolted flour, one quart milk, two tablespoonfuls of molasses, and teaspoonful of soda. OATMEAL BREAD. One quart of fresh oatmeal, two quarts water, let stand over night; when ready to bake add one quart of fine flour, one-half cup sugar, one tablespoonful of fine salt. two tablespoonfuls baking powder; mix with a spoon ; no kneading is required ; if too stiff add water. EGG BREAD. One pint milk, two eggs, butter size of an egg, one- half cup sugar, three teaspoons of “sea foam,” flour enough to make a batter; bake. This makes one loaf. YEAST AND BREAD. / Y18 DORA’S BROWN BREAD. Take one quart corn meal, one pint rye flour, one tea- spoonful salt, four heaping teaspoonfuls baking powder, and mix all thoroughly together. Then add half a tea- cupful molasses and sweet milk enough to make a slack dough

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