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Brown-Bread Brewis

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United States

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

Ingredients 4 ingredients

  1. two cups milk
  2. two cups dry brown bread
  3. Butter
  4. Salt

Cook safely

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

  • Hot oil. Never put water on an oil fire: turn off the heat and cover the pan with a lid or a damp tea towel. Pat food dry before it goes into hot oil, and lower it in gently, away from you.
  • 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. Break two cups dry brown bread and half-cup white bread into inch pieces;
  2. melt tablespoon butter in frying-pan;
  3. put in the bread, cover with two cups milk and half-teaspoon salt.
  4. Simmer until bread is soft and milk absorbed.
  5. Stir occasionally to keep from sticking.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Frying pan
  • Saucepan
  • Wooden spoon
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Credit

From The Chicago Record cook book (1896), printed page 170, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/chicagorecordcoo00ches

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.