Can you help me with a simple recipe for brown bread?!
Boston Brown Bread
3Cups Graham or Whole Wheat Flour
? Cup Corn meal
1 ? Teaspoon Soda
1Teaspoon Baking Powder
1Teaspoon Salt
1Cup Raisins
1/4Cup white flour to flour the raisins
? Cup nuts
2 Cups Sour milk (or Buttermilk)
? Cup Molasses
Mix dry ingredients. Add raisins and nuts. Mix molasses and milk together, add to dry ingredients. Beat well. Fill buttered molds 2/3 full. Place 1 cup water and racks in cooker. Place molds on rack. Cook until steaming then lower heat. Time depends on size of molds.
Answers: This was my mothers recipe for what she called "Boston Brown Bread" and I have always loved it. Pretty simple to make. Just sub buttermilk for the sour milk and works fine.
Boston Brown Bread
3Cups Graham or Whole Wheat Flour
? Cup Corn meal
1 ? Teaspoon Soda
1Teaspoon Baking Powder
1Teaspoon Salt
1Cup Raisins
1/4Cup white flour to flour the raisins
? Cup nuts
2 Cups Sour milk (or Buttermilk)
? Cup Molasses
Mix dry ingredients. Add raisins and nuts. Mix molasses and milk together, add to dry ingredients. Beat well. Fill buttered molds 2/3 full. Place 1 cup water and racks in cooker. Place molds on rack. Cook until steaming then lower heat. Time depends on size of molds.
BOSTON BROWN BREAD
Ingredients1 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
1 cup milk
1/2 cup dried currants or raisins Preparation1. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees.
2. Generously grease a 1-quart pudding mold or 1-pound coffee can. Combine the flour, baking soda and salt in a mixing bowl. Stir in the molasses and milk. Fold in the currants.
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.
2 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
1 1/2 cups wheat germ
1/3 cup brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup raisins, mixed dark & light
2 teaspoons baking soda
2 cups buttermilk
1/3 cup molasses / brown sugar or honey
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
Grease a 9 X 5 X 3-inch pan.
Combine flour, wheat germ, brown sugar, salt and raisins in a mixing bowl.
Mix well.
In a second mixing bowl, mix baking soda, buttermilk and molasses, using a wooden spoon.
This misture will start to bubble.
Immediately mix it into the dry ingredients.
Spoon the batter into the greased pan.
Bake at once.
The bread is done when a toothpick comes out clean, about 1 hour.
Turn out of the pan and cool on a wire rack.
recipe 2: brown bread3 3/4 cups warm water
1/4 cup warm water (100 to 110 degrees F)
1 1/2 tablespoons salt
1 cup molasses
1/2 cup melted Crisco
1 fresh yeast cake or 3 teaspoons dry yeast
1 teaspoon sugar
6-10 cups flour
Mix the yeast, sugar, and 1/4 cup of warm water.
Let sit for 5 minutes.
(Yeast is good if it foams!) In large bowl combine water, salt, molasses, and Crisco.
Stir until salt dissolves.
Add the yeast mixture and stir well.
Sift in 6 cups of flour and stir until mixed well.
Keep adding flour until mixture becomes too hard to stir.
Flop the dough onto a well floured surface and knead 6-8 minutes.
Place dough in large greased bowl, cover, set in warm place and let raise until double in size.
Punch dough down and with greased hands form into 3 loaves and place in greased loaf pans or form into approx.
48 rolls and place in greased pans.
Preheat oven to 350.
Let formed dough rise.
Cook in preheated oven at 350 for 40-45 minutes.
Let bread/rolls sit in pans for 5-10 minutes then finish cooling on wire racks.