You’ll Need:

Set a sponge of the following ingredients:
2 cups lukewarm skim milk
? cake compressed yeast
1 cup cornmeal
? cup rye meal or Graham flour (use the bran)
2/3 cup thoroughly dried bread crumbs
When this sponge is light, which will be in about three hours, add the following to make a dough:
? cup warm molasses
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup thoroughly dried bread crumbs
? cup raisins, washed

Directions : To prepare this Boston Brown Bread Recipe 1, first mix thoroughly, and set in a warm place to rise again. When light, stir it down well, then put it in an oiled brown-bread tin, cover the tin, and put it at once in the steamer. Steam two hours. This is nice made the day before it is to be used, and then warmed up by steaming