Wheaten Meal Loaf (Steamed)

Ingredients

• 1 lb. 'Wheaten Meal
• 1 teaspoonful Carbonate of Soda
• 1 do. Suear
• 1 do Cream of Tartar
• ^ do. of Salt

Method

1. 1

   Mix with buttermilk into a soft dough.

2. 2

   Steam for 2 hours in a deep cake pan with a buttered paper tied over the top.

3. 3

   Care must be taken that no water gets into the pan while steaming.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Tried favourites cookery book (1909) by Kirk, E. W. Mrs, page 142. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 do. Cream of Tartar, 1 do. Salt, 1 do. ground Ginger, 1 do. ground Cinnamon, 1 dessertspoon Sugar, piece of Butter sizo of walnut, 1 taldcspoou Treacle, and a little Butte r-millc. Mix dry ingredients. Heat butter and treacle and proceed as in white scones. Tea Scones. i lb. Flour, 1 tablesixionful Sultanas, 1 dessertspoonful Sugar, 1 do. Butter, 1 do. Eoyol Baking Powder, a pinch of Salt. Mix with sweet Milk. Mix flour, sugar, powder, and salt; then rub in butter; add milk and raisins. Make dough rather soft, and bake in hot oven 10 minutes. ^ Treacle Scones. Same mixture as for white scones, only add double quantities of soda and cream of tartar, and put in 2 tablespoon fuls of treacle instead of syrup. Work out in the usual way. Stale Bread. When immersed in cold water for a moment or two, and re-baked for about 1 hour, it is in every respect equal to newly-baked bread ; or wrap in cloth and steam 10 or 15 minutes in steamer. Then dry in oven. Rolls or biscuits may have top crust wet with a little melted butter. Then brown a minute after steaming. Sugar Cakes for Afternoon Tea. Cream 4 oz. of butter, add 2 oz. of sugar (beating well), 4 oz. of flour, 1 teaspoonful of baking powder, 1 tablespoonful of milk, and the yolk of an egg beaten up. Turn out on a floured board, roll out and cut into any fancied shape. Bake 5 minutes in sharp oven. 152 TRIED E AY OD RITES COOKERY BOOK. Whea.ten Mea.! Scones. 3 teaoupfula of Wheaten Flour, 1 teaeupM of Flour, 1 teaRpoonful of Soda 1 do. Cream of Tartar, 1 do. Sugar, ^ do. Salt, 1 dessertspoonful Butter or Margarine, about a breakfastcupful of Butter-milk. Mix in the same way as the white scones, and fire on a girdle or in a quick oven for about 10 minutes. Wheaten Meal Loaf (Steamed). 1 lb. 'Wheaten Meal, 1 teaspoonful Carbonate of Soda, 1 do. Suear. i do Cream of Tartar, ^ do. of Salt

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