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BOSTON BROWN BREAD
3 1/2 c. water
1 1/2 c. raisins
6 Tbsp. oil
1 1/2 c. brown sugar
2 eggs, beaten
1 tsp. salt
2 1/2 c. whole wheat flour
1 c. white flour
1 tsp. vanilla
1 Tbsp. baking soda
1/2 to 1 c. chopped nuts
Combine water and raisins in saucepan. Bring to a low boil. Boil 5 to 10 minutes. Cool. While this is cooling, combine oil, brown sugar, eggs, salt, whole wheat flour, white flour, vanilla and baking soda. Mix in cooled water and raisins, then nuts. Bake in greased soup cans. (May also use
1 pound vegetable cans.) Bake at 375 degrees for one hour. Let cool in cans for a moist Boston Brown Bread.
Ingredients
1 tablespoon unsalted butter for greasing
1 1/2 cups brown-bread flour*
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup dark molasses
3. Fill the mold or coffee can with batter. It should come up about two-thirds of the way. Cover the top with foil and tie securely with a string to make it airtight.
4. Place in a deep baking pan and fill the pan with boiling water, to come halfway up the side of the mold.
5. Place in the preheated oven and allow to steam for 2 hours, checking the water level after 1 hour. Add more boiling water if needed. Check by sticking a skewer into the bread; it will come out clean when done. Remove string and foil and allow to cool for 1 hour before unmolding.
*A specialty of New England, brown-bread flour is a mixture of whole wheat, rye and cornmeal or johnnycake meal. It can be purchased already mixed or made by simply combining equal parts of wheat and rye flour and cornmeal.
Source InformationJasper White's Cooking from New England
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These sound good. Do you have to bake this in a can? What size baking pan could you use, and how would you change the recipe for this, if at all?
Please please don't re-use empty cans to cook or heat anything in. Cans nowadays have a toxic plastic material called Bisphenol A (BPA) inside them to keep the metal can from affecting the taste of the food. Unfortunately the BPA is the same as has been used to make baby bottles and many other hard plastic water bottles. BPA has been linked to breast cancer and early puberty in women and when they tested very low doses on mice and rats they found the same plus diabetes, enlarged prostate and prostate cells prone to cancerous changes among the many health problems it can cause. The food that is in these cans is also contaminated by the BPA but then if you reuse the container by cooking or heating anything in them you release up to 50 times more of BPA into the food.
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