Sift the soda through a very fine sieve, add to dry ingredients and sift again. Add molasses and sour milk, beat well. Pour into buttered molds and steam three hours. If a hard crust is desired, remove bread from molds and bake fifteen minutes.
Raised Brown Bread
- 2 cups corn meal
¼ yeast cake
2 cups rye
½ cup molasses
1 teaspoon salt
⅛ teaspoon soda
¼ cup lukewarm water
2 cups boiling water
Pour boiling water on corn meal. When lukewarm add dissolved yeast cake and remaining ingredients. Beat well, let it rise over night, beat and pour into a buttered brown-bread tin. Bake in moderate oven from one and one half to two hours.
Sweet Milk Brown Bread
- 1 cup flour
1 cup graham flour
1 cup entire wheat flour
1½ teaspoons salt
¾ cup molasses
1-¾ cups milk
¾ teaspoon soda
Sift the soda through a very fine sieve, add to dry ingredients and sift again. Add molasses and milk, beat well. Pour into buttered mold and steam three hours.
Buns
- 4 cups flour
1 cup milk
⅓ cup sugar
⅓ cup butter
1 teaspoon salt
½ yeast cake
¼ cup lukewarm water
3 eggs