Baked Molasses Buttermilk Bread (1963)

• 1-3/4 cups sifted flour
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1-1/2 tspns each salt and baking soda
• 1 tspn baking powder
• 2 cups graham flour
• 1/3 cup shortening
• 2 eggs, beaten
• 1-3/4 cups buttermilk
• 3/4 cup molasses

Sift flour again into large mixing bowl with sugar, soda, salt, and baking powder. Add graham flour and mix in thoroughly.

With pastry blender, cut shortening into dry ingredients until fine. Mix eggs with buttermilk and molasses. Pour into ingredients in the bowl, and stir until all ingredients are blended.

Pour into 2 greased 9-x-5-inch loaf pans or 1 large pan (about 14-x-9 inches). Bake in a moderate oven (350 degrees) for 35 to 45 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. 

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(Origin - "The Sunset Cook Book of Breads" by the Editors of Sunset magazine and Sunset books, 1963.)