The Boston cooking-school cook book

1½ cups stale bread 3¼ cups cold water ¾ cup molasses 1½ teaspoons salt ────────────────────┬──────────── Rye meal │1½ cups each Granulated corn meal│ Graham flour │ ────────────────────┴──────────── 3 teaspoons soda Soak bread in two cups of the water over night. In the morning rub through colander, add molasses, dry ingredients mixed and sifted, and remaining water. Stir until well mixed, fill buttered one-pound baking-powder boxes two-thirds full, cover, and steam two hours. Indian Bread 1½ cups Graham flour 1 cup Indian meal ½ tablespoon soda 1 teaspoon salt ½ cup molasses 1⅔ cups milk Mix and steam same as Boston Brown Bread. Steamed Graham Bread 3 cups Arlington meal 1 cup flour 3½ teaspoons soda 1 teaspoon salt 1 cup molasses (scant) 2½ cups sour milk Mix same as Boston Brown Bread and steam four hours. This bread may often be eaten when bread containing corn meal could not be digested. Parker House Rolls 2 cups scalded milk 3 tablespoons butter 2 tablespoons sugar 1 teaspoon salt 1 yeast cake dissolved in ¼ cup lukewarm water Flour Add butter, sugar, and salt to milk; when lukewarm, add dissolved yeast cake and three cups of flour. Beat thoroughly, cover, and let rise until light; cut down, and add enough flour to knead (it will take about two and one-half cups). Let rise again, toss on slightly floured board, knead, pat, and roll out to one-third inch thickness. Shape with biscuit-cutter, first dipped in flour. Dip the handle of a case knife in flour, and with it make a crease through the middle of each piece; brush over one-half of each piece with melted butter, fold, and press edges together. Place in greased pan, one inch apart, cover, let rise, and bake in hot oven twelve to fifteen minutes. As rolls rise they will part slightly, and if hastened in rising are apt to lose their shape. [Illustration: SWEET FRENCH ROLLS.—Page 60. ] [Illustration: PARKER HOUSE ROLLS; SALAD ROLLS; CLOVER LEAF BISCUIT; STICKS.—_Page 59._ ] [Illustration: SWEDISH TEA RING; SWEDISH TEA BRAID.—_Page 64._ ] [Illustration: COFFEE CAKES (BRIOCHE).—_Page 62._ ] Parker House