Boston Brown Bread

1 cupful ryemeal
2 tablespoonfuls Crisco
1 cupful sugar
1 cupful cornmeal
1 cupful graham flour
3/4 tablespoonful baking soda
1/3 teaspoonful salt
3/4 cupful molasses
1-3/4 cupfuls sweet milk

Mix and sift ingredients. Dissolve soda with one tablespoonful hot water, add to molasses, then add milk and mix with dry ingredients. Turn into greased mold two-thirds full, grease cover, and steam steadily three and a half hours. A 6-pound Crisco pail can be used for a mold.

Sufficient for one loaf.