New England Brown Bread
11/2 cups stale bread | 11/2 Rye meal |
31/4 cups cold water | 11/2 Granulated corn meal |
3/4 cup molasses | 11/2 Graham flour |
11/2 teaspoons salt | 3 teaspoons soda |
Soak bread in two cups of the water over night. In the morning rub through colander, add molasses, dry ingredients mixed and sifted, and remaining water. Stir until well mixed, fill buttered one-pound baking-powder boxes two-thirds full, cover, and steam two hours.
Indian Bread
11/2 cups Graham flour | 1 teaspoon salt |
1 cup Indian meal | 1/2 cup molasses |
1/2 tablespoon soda | 12/3 cups milk |
Mix and steam same as Boston Brown Bread.
Steamed Graham Bread
3 cups Arlington meal | 1 teaspoon salt |
1 cup flour | 1 cup molasses (scant) |
31/2 teaspoons soda | 21/2 cups sour milk |
Mix same as Boston Brown Bread and steam four hours. This bread may often be eaten when bread containing corn meal could not be digested.
Parker House Rolls
2 cups scalded milk | 2 teaspoons salt |
3 tablespoons butter | 1 yeast cake dissolved in |
2 tablespoons sugar | 1/4 cup lukewarm water |
Flour |
Add butter, sugar, and salt to milk; when lukewarm, add dissolved yeast cake and three cups of flour. Beat thoroughly, cover, and let rise until light; cut down, and add enough flour to knead (it will take about two and one-half cups). Let rise again, toss on slightly floured board, knead, pat, and roll out to one-third inch thickness. Shape with biscuit-cutter, first dipped in flour. Dip the handle of a case knife in flour, and with it make a crease through the middle of each piece; brush over one-half of each piece with