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Jeanette MacDonald’s Brown Bread Recipe

Jeanette MacDonald recommended that this recipe be served with her Baked Beans.

Jeanette MacDonald’s Hot Boston Brown Bread

2 cups sour milk
1/2 cup molasses
1 1/2 cups yellow cornmeal
1 cup graham or whole wheat flour
1 cup rye flour
2 tbsp butter
2 tbsp sugar
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
2/3 cup raisins

Combine dry ingredients. Mix together milk, molasses and raisins. Stir liquid ingredients into dry ingredients. Divide batter, pour into two buttered one-quart pudding molds filling 2/3 full. Cover tightly. Place in pan filled with boiling water (enough water to reach halfway up the mold.) Steam about 2 to 2 1/2 hours. Add more water as needed to keep water at proper level. Remove molds from water. Undercover and set in 300 degrees Fahrenheit oven for 20-30 minutes to dry off. Remove from molds and serve hot with butter.

Today in J/N History

1944 Nelson writes the first draft of a movie treatment for himself and Jeanette entitled "Timothy Waits for Love." The plot somewhat resembles Mel Gibson's movie "Forever Young" (1992) in which the hero is cryogenically frozen and wakes up years later to be reunited with his lost love.

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