Boston Brown Bread – Miss Jessie A. West, Center street, Auburn:

Cook six hours or more. Two cups corn meal, one cup rye meal, one-half cup molasses, one teaspoon salt, two cups sour milk, one cup sweet milk, one teaspoonful soda dissolved in the sweet milk. This will just fill a five-pound lard pail. Put a greased paper in the bottom, put the cover on, and set it into one of the ten-pound pails. Fill the large pail with boiling water till it reaches not quite up to the ears of the small one, cover tightly and cook on top of stove till the oven is free, then cook the rest of the time in the oven. It will not need to be disturbed usually, and is better than steaming.

50 Years Ago, 1957

• Plans to promote a statewide polio immunization drive were formulated by the council of the Maine Medical Association via a long-distance telephone hookup linking 11 doctors. The Maine Medical Association said it will organize a drive to immunize everyone in the state up to 60 years old through local action groups headed by doctors in the communities.

• Sen. Clifford Case (R-NJ) was assured that if Elvis Presley goes into the Army he will get the same treatment anyone else gets. And that, the army said, includes the famous Presley hair-do.

• President Eisenhower asked Congress to admit more immigrants to the United States, with a special welcome to fugitives from communism.

25 Years Ago, 1982

Videocassette players may be something of a novelty at present, but industry forecasts indicate that in the foreseeable future such adjuncts to the television set may be almost as common as the basic set itself.

The coming video revolution may be closer than we know. At least, businesses such as videotape rental and sales agencies are multiplying.

Now a new development in videotape services has appeared on the scene. Companies are offering to tape weddings and birthday parties as well as individual messages to loved ones for future showing at the appropriate time.