How to Make: Old-Fashioned Boston Brown Bread
How to Make: Old-Fashioned Boston Brown Bread
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So let’s get into what makes this bread special, shall we? Do get that nice, deep color (and flavor!) we use a mix of whole wheat and all-purpose flour. Other recipes incorporate rye flour, but we decided to keep ours simple. To the flour we also add molasses and buttermilk. Molasses adds to the darkness and amps up the flavor, the buttermilk keeps things light and moist, and prevents the bread from becoming too heavy or dense. Finally, we mix in some (plumped up, rehydrated) raisins for that added pop of sweetness.
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MAKING BOSTON BROWN BREAD WITH RAISINS
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Boston Brown Bread
1 c. all purpose flour
1 c. rye flour
1 c. corn meal (finely ground)
1 tsp salt
1 tsp allspice
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
2 tsp vanilla
2 c. buttermilk
(to make your own buttermilk: use ratio of 1 tbsp vinegar to 1 c. milk)
1 c. raisins
1 c. molassas
This recipe will fill two 1lb metal coffee cans. Choose cans with no BPA in them!!! Butter inside of cans.
Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
Boil large pot of water to fill roasting pan (with a rack) for steaming bread. Water should go up to 1/3 height of cans, when cans are set in the roasting pan.
Mix dry ingredients. Add wet ingredients.
Fill cans to the same height (can use a funnel to make it easier).
Cover top of cans securely with aluminum foil.
Place cans in roasting pan, and put in oven.
Add boiling water to roasting pan, up to 1/3 of height of cans.
Steam for 2 1/2 hours.
Please be careful when taking bread out of cans.
DELICIOUS BOSTON BROWN BREAD STEAMED IN COFFEE CANS! No Yeast Needed, with or without raisins
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RECIPE
Preheat oven to 325 degrees
have 2 buttered/greased 16 oz Non BPA cans ready
roasting pan with rack
boil 8 quarts of water on stovetop
Bowl 1 Mix dry ingredients.
1 cup all purpose flour, 1 cup rye flour, 1 cup corn meal, 1 tsp salt, 1 tsp baking soda, 1 tsp baking powder, 1 tsp allspice
Add 1 cup raisins, toss to coat
BOWL 2, mix wet ingredients:
2 cups buttermilk (or 2 cups milk with 2 tbsp vinegar); 1 cup molasses, 2 tsp vanilla
Mix dry and wet together into one bowl
Fill buttered cans 2/3 full, cover tightly with foil. Place baking pan with rack in preheated oven. Place filled jars in pan. Pour boiling water into pain to cover bottom 1/3 of jars.
Bake/steam 2-1/4 hours. Check with toothpick to see if they are done, slightly pulled away from sides and no batter on toothpick.
Run butterknife around inside edge of can to release bread. Slice and enjoy! Especially good with Boston Baked Beans!
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Boston Baked Beans with Franks and Brown Bread
Welcome to New England, the home of our world famous Boston baked beans. Many families here still follow a long tradition from the days of the Pilgrims, of enjoying a Saturday evening supper of Boston baked beans, along with franks and steamed brown bread. This is a supper that simply can't be beat, especially if you make the baked beans from scratch. The beans slow cook in molasses all day, and when they're ready, they have a flavor that is unsurpassable. But while Boston baked beans are famous worldwide, you may not have heard of our Boston brown bread. This is a molasses bread that isn't baked in an oven, but rather it's steamed like an old fashioned British pudding. Once you've had this classic New England dish of franks, baked beans and brown bread, you may never be satisfied with those canned baked beans ever again!
These beans were prepared in a cast iron dutch oven, because the first New England beanpots were made from cast iron. The brown bread and franks were prepared in a Lodge Cast Iron Blacklock series 10 inch skillet. The recipes for these dishes can be seen on my Web site, Cast Iron Chaos, at:
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