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Boston Brown Bread

1 teaspoon salt tablespoon soda 2 cups sour milk cup molasses cup raisins, if desired Sift together dry ingredients. Mix well with sour milk and molasses. If mixture is too stiff, thin with a little water. If raisins are used, either add to dry mixture before liquid, or reserve a little flour, sift well over raisins and stir in last. Fill well-greased molds full of mixture and tie on the lids which also must be greased. Steam three hours or more, depending on size of molds used. Baking powder cans or other cans with lids can be used for molds.

Keep the water boiling all the time during the steaming. Add more boiling water if necessary.

Cover the kettle during the steaming, and be careful not to jar it while cooking.