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Brown Bread

Name: Brown Bread
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients: Three and one-half cups graham flour; two cups corn meal; three cups sour milk; one-half cup molasses; one and one-half teaspoon soda

From The New century cook book, 1899

Serves 4

Recipe by Mrs. P. G. Burns.

A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record

Ingredients

Three and one-half cups graham flour
two cups corn meal
three cups sour milk
one-half cup molasses
one and one-half teaspoon soda

Method

Steam for two and a half hours, then put in the oven for fifteen minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The New century cook book (1899), page 2. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Brown Bread Three-fourths cup Indian meal, same of flour, one scant cup sour milk, one-third cup molasses, one-half teaspoon soda dissolved in little water, pinch of salt, steam one and one-half hours. Put on over cold water, but keep boiling after it once boils. Brown in oven. Cook in pound baking powder cans well greased. M. W. Boston Brown Bread, with Raisins. One cup New Orleans molasses, three cups sour milk, two cups rye flour, two cups graham flour, one cup cornmeal, one- quarter teaspoon ginger, one saltspoon each of cloves, cinnamon, and salt, two even teaspoonfuls soda dissolved in a little warm water. Mix thoroughly, then stir in the mixture one teacup seeded raisins well floured. Grease cans well, and half fill with the mixture. Steam steadily for three hours, then place in the oven five minutes. Mrs. L. C. Pitner. Brown Bread. Three-fourths cup molasses, one-half cup sugar, two cups of sour milk or cream, one teaspoonful soda. Stir well together and add one pound or one quart of graham flour, a pinch of salt. Put in well-buttered tin pans, and bake one hour in moderate oven. Excellent. Mrs. J. W. Nicholson. Boston Brown Bread. One cup sour milk, one cup molasses, one-half cup corn meal, moistened with water, three cups graham flour, one tea- spoon salt and one teaspoon soda. Mrs. P. G. Burns. 8 New Century Cook Book. Boston Brown Bread. One cup sour milk, one cup sweet milk, two cups graham, one cup corn meal, one cup flour, one teaspoon soda, one cup molasses. Steam three hours, bake thirty minutes. Mrs. Wilbur. Brown Bread. Three and one-half cups graham flour, two cups corn meal, three cups sour milk, one-half cup molasses, one and one-half teaspoon soda

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