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Boston Brown Bread Recipe


Boston Brown Bread Recipe
From the Boston terrier loving Grandma Robert's. (Every terrier she owned was named Tammy) She was a Florida transplant from Maine, this was one of her favorite breads. Always served with cream cheese and calomondin preserves. Again, the recipe di... More

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Ingredients
  • 1 cup cornmeal
  • 1 cup of rye flour or
  • 1 cup of graham flour
  • 1 teaspoon of salt
  • 3/4 tablespoons of baking soda
  • 2 cups of sour milk
  • 3/4 cup molasses
  • 1/2 cup of raisins if desired

Directions
  1. Sift together dry ingredients.
  2. Mix well with sour milk and molasses.
  3. If mixture is too stiff, thin with a little water.
  4. If raisins are used, either add to dry mixture before liquid or reserve a little bit of flour and sift well over raisins and stir in last.
  5. Grease baking powder cans (soup cans) or molds and cover. fill half full with batter.
  6. Steam 3 hours or more, depending on the size of the molds.
  7. That's it folks, all she wrote, good luck. Bless your heart, Grandma.

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Now this is a bread recipe.......LOVE IT

GREAT POST


Great recipe, Tina babe - thank you! You make me happy....thank you. ~Vickie


Sounds very good!


We grew up with this and I can still remember my mother using a tin can from Boston Baked Beans for making it. The rich color from the molasses is wonderful and the sweet raisins add that special fruity addition.


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