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Boston Brown Bread is a classic New England bread enjoyed for generations. Get the easy recipe and find out how to make the best Boston brown bread in a can. This simple quick bread is nutty, sweet, and loaded with raisins. Great for breakfast or a snack. Perfect for Easter or any holiday. #bostonbrownbread #brownbread #quickbreads #easybreadrecipes

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A traditional New England-style quickbread made with whole wheat and rye flour, cornmeal, molasses, and buttermilk. Make it with or without raisins. Bake it in a jar for the classic round shape.

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Today I’m taking a little trip down memory lane. It all started a few weeks ago when I saw something on Pinterest about baking in tin cans instead of using ordinary pans. I read a little further and smiled because it was as if they had discovered something brand new. Recycle! Re-purpose! And make cute...

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A staple in New England, Boston brown bread – called just brown bread in New England – is a moist, sweet bread made with raisins and molasses that's baked in aluminum cans. (Baked bean cans would be a good choice!) The bread is said to have made its appearance in the 1800s. Serve this easy Boston...

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Did you know? “Brown bread is as old as our country,” James Beard wrote in “American Cookery” (1972). “Everyone seems to treasure an ‘original’ recipe, handed down from the founding families.” At the time of the American Revolution, wheat flour was a luxury. Cornmeal and rye flour were more common. So the three grains were combined in what were called “thirded” breads. A bread born of necessity 300 years ago easily could have been invented this morning by a nutritionist. It’s high in fiber…

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Boston brown bread is a classic New England staple. Have you ever tried it? Boston brown bread is a New England classic that has yet to be popularized in

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And you thought it only came out of a can, right? Boston brown bread is actually a mixture of rye and wheat flours and cornmeal, sweetened with molasses, moistened with buttermilk, and steamed in a steamer for hours atop the stove. Follow this traditional approach, or bake the bread in the oven. The results are remarkably similar — peel off the foil to reveal a moist, delicious brown bread!

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Who else grew up with those cans of Boston Brown Bread in the kitchen cupboards? Well now you can make your own, homemade, fresh version. Rich with molasses and raisins for flavor and moisture, but this old time bread has no added fat or eggs.

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Wonderful bread! Although tradition dictates that this bread should be served with Boston Bake Beans it is also great with a bowl of soup, a salad or with a main dish. You will need 3 10-ounce coffee cans to bake this bread, although it can also be baked in 8X4 loaf pans (but then you will not have the beautiful rounds that make this bread special). The loaves can be frozen for up to 1 month. This recipe is from Massachusetts' infamous baker René Becker of the Hi-Rise Bread Company. I have…

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