Bran Bread
4 cups sterilized bran
2 cups buttermilk
raisins if desired
2 cups white flour
½ teaspoon soda |
Bake until thoroughly done.
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| Editress Suffrage Cook Book:
I take pleasure in sending you a portrait
and also my favorite recipe for food, which I
hope will be of some use to you and help the
cause along.
Mush should be made only of the whole
meal flour of the grain and well cleaned before
grinding. Whole wheat flour, whole Indian Corn
Meal, whole wheat and whole barley meal are
examples of the raw materials.
Take one pint (pound) of meal, ½ teaspoon
of salt, four pints (pounds) of water. Add
the salt to the water and after boiling stir in
slowly, so as to avoid making lumps, the meal
until all is used. Break up any lumps that may
form with the ladle until the mass is homogeneous.
Cover the vessel and boil slowly over a low
fire so as not to burn the contents, for an
hour. Or better after bringing to a boil in a
closed vessel place in a fireless cooker over night.
This is the best breakfast food that can be
had and the quantity above mentioned is sufficient
for from four to six persons. The cost of the
raw material based on the farmer's price is not
over 1½ cents.
Variation: Mush may also be made with
cold water by careful and continuous stirring.
There is some advantage of stirring the meal in
cold water as there is no danger of lumping but
without very vigorous stirring especially at the
bottom, the meal may scorch during the heating
of the water.
The food above described is useful especially
for growing children as the whole meal or
flour produce the elements which nourish all the
tissues of the body.
Respectfully,
Dr. Harvey W. Wiley.
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Dr. Wiley urges house wives to grind their own wheat flour and corn meal, using the coffee grinder for the work. The degree of fineness of flour is regulated by frequent grindings.
The improvement in flavor and freshness of cakes, breads and mush made from home ground wheat and corn will absolutely prove a revelation.