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New England Lunch Bread

2 cups Yellow Meal, 1 cup White Flour, 1 teaspoonful Salt, 1 pt. sweet Milk, 2/3rds cup Molasses, 1 rounded teaspoonful The Great "Arm & Hammer" Soda.

Sift together the yellow meal, white flour and the salt. Dissolve one rounded teaspoonful salt . Dissolve one rounded teaspoonful The Great "Arm & Hammer" Soda in one third cup warm water, and pour to one pint sweet milk and two thirds cup molasses. Then stir milk gradually into flour and mix all thoroughly. Put this stiff batter into deep moulds (well greased and flour dusted) and steam in a water bath from 5 to 6 hours.