Squash Bread
From Kentucky receipt book, 1903
Serves 1
Knead for 20 minutes and let rise twice.
Presented as published in 1903. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from Kentucky receipt book (1903) by Mary Harris Frazer, page 68. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
Squash Bread. One cup stewed and sifted squash, 1 tablespoon butter, % cup yeast, 2 tablespoons granulated sugar, 1% cups scalded milk, 1 tea- spoon salt, flour enough for a dough. Add sugar and salt to the squash, the butter melted in hot milk ; when cool add flour and yeast • knead 20 minutes, set to rise. Make into loaf or biscuits, let rise again, then bake. Brown Bread. One pint Graham flour, 1 pint cornmeal, 1 cup molasses, 1 pint sour cream, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon soda. Mix meal and flour, salt and soda, add sour cream and molasses, beat well, if not moist enough, add a little lukewarm water. Pour into a greased mold, fill about 2-3 full, cover with greased top, steam 3 hours in a steamer, or put mold in pot for boiling water, replenish with boiling water as needed. Remove top, set mold in oven 15 minutes. Bice Flannel Cakes. One pint of flour, 1 pint milk, % cup boiled rice, 1 dessertspoon bjitter and lard mixed, 1 egg, 1 teaspoon baking powder. Beat yolk, add milk, flour, rice, butter melted and salt, add white well frothed. Bake on a hot greased griddle. Flannel Cakes. One pint flour, 1 pint sour cream or buttermilk, 1 egg, 1 teaspoon salt, Yo tea soda, 1 teaspoon melted butter or lard. Beat yolk, add sour cream, flour gradually, salt, soda dissolved in a little sour cream, then frothed white. Bake on a greased hot griddle. KENTUCKY RfiCBIPT BOOK. 115 Pumpkin Bread. One quart of meal sifted, 1 pint of pumpkin (istfter cooking), 1 kitchen spoon of lard, 2 teaspoons of brown sugar, 1 teaspoon of salt. "Work all together, make in pones and bake in oven. Bye Bread. One cup of scalded milk, 1 cup boiling water, 1 tablesppon of lard, 1 tablespoon of butter, 1-3 cup of brown sugar, 3 cups flour, y^ cup yeast
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