Indian Bread

Ingredients

• Buttermilk 1 quart
• Indian meal 4 cups
• Wheat or rye flour 2 cups
• Molasses 1 cup
• Salt 1 teaspoonful
• Soda 1 teaspoonful

Method

1. 1

   Mix the milk, molasses and salt first, then the soda dissolved in a little of it and mixed in; then the flour, and lastly the meal.

2. 2

   Steam 3 hours or bake 2 hours.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 6 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Dr. M'Millan's formulas and domestic guide (1882) by M'Millan, Alexander M. D., page 69. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

INDIAN BREAD. Buttermilk i quart. Indian meal 4 cups. Wheat or rye flour 2 cups. Molasses i cup. Salt I tea-spoonful. Soda I tea-spoonful. Mix — The milk, molasses and salt first, then the soda dissolved in a little of it and mixed in; then the flour, and lastly the meal. Steam 3 hours or bake 2 hours. BISCUIT Flour 2 quarts. Butter 2 table-spoonfuls. Salt I tea-spoonful. Baking powder 2 tea-spoonfuls. Baking soda i tea-spoonful. Sour milk sufficient. Sift the flour and thoroughly mix in the salt and baking powder dry. In warm weather work in the butter cold, but in cold weather melt and work in. Mash and dissolve the soda in a cup with a little of the milk, then pour it into the flour, and mix, adding more milk until the flour is all wet up. Cut out and mould, place in tins, and bake in a quick oven. GEMS. Graham meal (or flour) 2 quarts. Add salt and warm water, stirring thoroughly, make a thick batter and put into hot pans and bake in a hot oven. baker's division. 215 PALMER HOUSE ROLLS. Flour I quart. Make a well in the center heaping the flour high as possible about it, pour in one-half cup of yeast. Warm milk one-half pint. White sugar i tea-spoonful. Butter I table-spoonful. Salt I tea-spoonfu

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