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Rye Gems

A historical breakfast recipe from Fannie Merritt Farmer's 1910 Boston Cooking-School Cook Book.

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Gather

Ingredients

  • 1⅔ cups Rye Flour
  • 1⅓ cups Flour
  • 4 teaspoons Baking Powder
  • 1 teaspoon Salt
  • ¼ cup Molasses
  • 1¼ cups Milk
  • 2 Eggs
  • 3 tablespoons Butter

Make it

Method

  1. 1

    Mix and sift dry ingredients, add molasses, milk, eggs well beaten, and butter. Bake in hot oven in buttered gem pans twenty-five minutes.

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Source & rights

Where this recipe comes from

Rye Gems, from The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1910).

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Historical measurements, equipment, temperatures and terminology may differ from modern kitchen practice.