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Boston Brown Bread

A historical recipe from Selections from Aunt Sammy's Radio Recipes and USDA Favorites, by Van Deman, Ruth, Fanny Walker Yeatman, Consumer and Food Economics Institute (U.S.) (1976).

A historical recipe

Selections from Aunt Sammy's Radio Recipes and USDA Favorites, by Van Deman, Ruth, Fanny Walker Yeatman, Consumer and Food Economics Institute (U.S.) (1976). Project Gutenberg eBook #65379.

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

Source and licence

From Selections from Aunt Sammy's Radio Recipes and USDA Favorites, by Van Deman, Ruth, Fanny Walker Yeatman, Consumer and Food Economics Institute (U.S.) (1976). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #65379 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65379). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

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Ingredients

Method

  1. 1 cup corn meal.
  2. 1 cup rye meal.
  3. 1 cup whole wheat flour.
  4. 1 teaspoon salt.
  5. ¾ cup molasses.
  6. 2 cups sour milk and 1½ teaspoons soda, or 1¾ cups sweet milk and 4 teaspoons baking powder.
  7. Mix and sift the dry ingredients;
  8. add the molasses and the milk.
  9. Beat the mixture thoroughly.
  10. Pour the batter into a greased tin can or mold until it is about three-fourths full.
  11. Cover, and steam for 3½ hours.
  12. Remove the cover, and bake the bread in a moderate oven for ½ hour to dry it off.
  13. If the bread seems likely to crumble, loop a clean string around the loaf and cut slices by pulling the ends of the string.