Steamed Indian Bread

Ingredients

• three cupfuls of Indian meal
• one of flour
• a teaspoonful of salt
• two cupfuls of sweet milk
• one of sour
• two-thirds of a cupful of molasses
• a teaspoonful of soda
• one tablespoonful of cold water

Method

1. 1

   Mix the Indian meal, flour, and salt.

2. 2

   Mix the sweet and sour milk with molasses.

3. 3

   Dissolve the soda in cold water and stir into the milk mixture.

4. 4

   Pour this onto the dry ingredients, beat thoroughly, and pour into a buttered basin.

5. 5

   Steam for three hours.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Parloa's kitchen companion (1887) by Maria Parloa, page 424. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Steamed Indian Bread. Mix three cupfuls of Indian meal, one of flour, and a teaspoonful of salt. Mix also two cupfuls of sweet milk and one of sour with two-thirds of a cupful of molasses. Dissolve a teaspoonful of soda in one table-spoonful of cold wate

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