Boston Brown Bread

Category: Bread

Cuisine: American

1 review 
Ready in 1 hour

Ingredients

1 1/2 c Whole wheat flour

2 c Buttermilk

3/4 c Molasses

1/2 c Cornmeal

1 ts Baking Powder

1 ts Salt

1 ts Baking soda

1 c Flour

1 c Raisins


Directions

Recipe by: The Doubleday Cookbook Grease 3 clean 14-ounce cans and line bottoms with circles of greased wax paper. Sift together white flour, salt, baking powder, and soda into a large bowl, stir in whole wheat flour and corn meal, them mix in molasses and buttermilk. Stir in raisins. Spoon into cans, filling no more than two thirds, cover with a greased double thickness of foil, and tie or tape securely. Place on a rack in a large kettle, pour in enough boiling water come halfway up cans, and steam about 1 hour until well risen and a metal skewer inserted in the center comes out clean. Lift cans from water, cool upright 1-2 minutes on a wire rack, then invert and ease the loaves out. C slightly on racks before cutting or cool to room temperature. Slice 1/4 in thick. Posted by Allison Meyer Posted to MM-Recipes Digest by "Rfm" <Robert-Miles@usa.net> on Oct 07, 98

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Great simple recipe

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