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Boston Brown Bread

From Helpful hints to housekeepers (1890).

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A historical recipe

Helpful hints to housekeepers, by [Hamilton, Myrta, Mrs.] [from old catalog] and Indianapolis. Plymouth church. Young people's circle. [from old catalog] (1890).

United States

Known as an American recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Ingredients 4 ingredients

  1. Three cups corn meal
  2. one cup graham flour
  3. one teaspoon soda
  4. one teaspoon salt

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. Three cups corn meal, one cup graham flour, three-fourths cup New Orleans molasses, one teaspoon soda and one teaspoon salt.
  2. Mix part milk and part water to the consistency of cake batter.
  3. Steam five hours.
  4. — Mrs.
  5. G-ilh rL

Plating

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Credit

From Helpful hints to housekeepers (1890), printed page 113, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/helpfulhintstoho00hami

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.