This section is from the book "Neighborhood Cook Book", by Circle No. 5, Women's Union, Hemenway Methodist Church. Also available from Amazon: Julia's Kitchen Wisdom: Essential Techniques and Recipes from a Lifetime of Cooking.
l 1/2 cups white flour, 2 1/2 cups graham flour, 1/2 cup brown sugar, 1 tsp. salt, 2 eggs, 1/2 cup molasses, 2 tsp. soda in 2 cups sour milk, 1 tbsp. melted butter and 1 cup seedless raisins.
Mix together in the order given, bake 1 hour slowly in pound cans, the first half hour with covers on.
- Mrs. Walter V. Turner. 13
1 cup brown sugar, 2 cups butter-milk, 1/2 tsp. baking powder, a pinch of salt and enough graham flour to make a stiff dough. Add nuts and raisins if desired. Bake slowly 2 hours. - Mrs. M. L. Wigginton.
2 cups warm water or milk, 1/2 cup sugar, 2 tbsp. baking molasses, 2 tbsp. lard (heaping), 1 tsp. salt, 1 or 2 yeast cakes, graham flour.
Make a soft sponge with 2 or 3 cups of flour, the warm water, and other ingredients. When light, add enough flour to make a very stiff dough. Knead on a floured board for 10 minutes and make into loaves. Let rise until they have doubled their size. Bake in a moderate oven 30 to 40 minutes. - Mrs. C. H. Reed.
2 cups yellow corn meal, 2 cups rye meal or graham flour, 3 cups milk (sweet or sour), 1/2 cup molasses, 1/2 cup boiling water, 1 tsp. soda (heaping), 1/2 tsp. salt.
Mix dry ingredients; add milk and molasses. Dissolve soda in boiling water and add just before putting in well-greased pound tins. Raisins or currants may be added. Steam 3 hours. Will make 6 loaves.
- Mrs. Edwin Price.
3 cups corn meal, 2 cups graham flour, 1 cup N. O. Molasses, 1 tsp. salt, 1/2 cup sugar, 1 tsp. soda. 2 1/2 cups warm water and 1 cup or more of English currants. Dissolve soda in warm water, add the other ingredients and steam 2 1/2 hours. - Mrs. G. C. Carnright.
10 cups graham flour. 10 cups white flour, 5 cups molasses. 8 cups sour milk, 5 tbsp. butter, 5.tsp. soda, 5 eggs, 3 cups raisins.
Steam 3 hours. For 100.
- Mr. Jos. Moore, Chef.
2 cups sweet milk, 1/2 cup N. 0. Molasses, 1 egg, 3 tbsp. sugar, pinch of salt. 2 cups graham flour, 1 1/2 cups white flour and 1 tsp. soda dissolved in the molasses. Raisins may be added if desired. Mix together in the usual way. Steam 2 hours in baking powder tins.
- Mrs. Ira Shearer.
2 cups graham flour, 1 cup corn meal, 1 cup white flour. 1 egg, 1 cup sweet milk, 1 cup sour milk, 1 cup raisins, 1/2 cup chopped walnuts, 1 cup molasses, 1 tsp. soda, and 1 tsp. baking powder.
Mix the dry ingredients together, add the sweet milk, then the beaten egg, fruit, nuts, and molasses, adding the sour milk just before putting into tins. Bake in baking powder or other small tins for 1 hour.
- Mrs. C. A. Bottorff.
1 cup brown sugar, 2 cups sour milk, 2 1/2 cups graham flour, 1 cup white flour, 1 cup chopped walnuts, 2 tsp. soda and 2 tsp. baking powder.
Dissolve sugar in sour milk and stir in graham flour. Sift together white flour and baking powder. Dissolve soda in a little cold water and mix all together. Add nuts and bake in slow oven for 1 hour. Makes 2 loaves.
- Mrs. Elmer A. Johnson.
 
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