Name: Boston Brown Bread
Ingredients: yeast or baking soda and baking powder; molasses; water

Boston Brown Bread

Oven, in the book's wordsA cool oven

Ingredients

yeast or baking soda and baking powder
molasses
water

Directions

Mix yeast or baking soda and baking powder with molasses.
Prepare a baking pan with 1 to 2 inches of water to prevent browning.
Pour the mixture into bread moulds.
If baking, place moulds in a cool oven at 200°F to 250°F (93°C to 121°C).
Alternatively, use a tin box to steam the bread: place moulds inside, fill the box halfway with boiling water, cover tightly, and steam for three hours.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.