Three cups graham flour, two cups corn meal, one cup New Orleans molasses, one pint sweet milk, one half cup of warm water, one teaspoonful salt, one small teaspoonful soda. Steam two and a half hours, then put in the oven and brown nicely.

Boston Brown Bread

One pint bowl of corn meal, one pint bowl of rye flour, one coffee cup molasses, salt, wet very soft with sour milk, one heaping teaspoonful saleratus dissolved in hot water, added the last thing. Steam four to six hours.

Another Brown Bread

Two cups wheat flour, two cups meal, one cup molasses, one cup sweet milk, one cup sour milk, one teaspoonful soda.