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A historical recipe from Favorite Dishes, by Carrie V. Shuman (1893).

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A historical recipe

Favorite Dishes : a Columbian Autograph Souvenir Cookery Book, by Carrie V. Shuman (1893). Project Gutenberg eBook #6703.

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

Source Public domain in the USA
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From Favorite Dishes, by Carrie V. Shuman (1893). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #6703 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6703). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

What was changed: As printed, from the book's text; Project Gutenberg's header and licence removed. Ingredient lines were read out of the text by a program. A historical recipe, not current advice.

Ingredients 3 ingredients

  1. One pint of bread sponge
  2. one cup of warm water
  3. one-half teaspoon of soda

Method

  1. EAGLE, of Arkansas, President of State Board, and Lady Manager.
  2. One pint of bread sponge;
  3. one cup of warm water;
  4. three-fourths cup of molasses, in which is stirred one-half teaspoon of soda: one large teaspoonful of salt.
  5. Stir in sufficient quantity of graham flour to make a stiff batter, put in mould and let rise till quite light and then bake in moderate oven one hour.

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