Grain Recipe

Boston Brown Bread
Grain Recipe

Once you prepare this dish you will never again buy brown bread in a can at the supermarket!

Ingredients:
1 cup rye flour
1 cup cornmeal
1 cup whole wheat flour
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup dark molasses
2 cups buttermilk
1 cup dark seedless raisins

Directions:
Place all the dry ingredients in your electric mixing bowl and mix well with your machine. Add the liquid ingredients and blend well.

Grease three 1-pound coffee cans or large fruit-juice cans and place 1/3 of the batter in each. Cover each with wax paper and then aluminum foil. Tie each with a bit of string so that the foil is sealed.

Place a cake rack in the bottom of a large soup pot and place the cans on the rack. Add enough boiling water to come 1/3 up the side of the cans. Cover the pot and bring it to a boil. Turn the heat down and simmer the cans for about 2-1/2 hours. Check the water level now and then as you will need to add more water.