Mary Anns Canned Brown Raisin Bread Food

MARY ANN'S CANNED BROWN (RAISIN) BREAD

Steps:

• Mix hot coffee, butter, and baking soda in bowl (the coffee should be hot enough to melt the butter).
• Once the butter has melted, stir the raisins into the mixture.
• Cover and let soak overnight.
• The next morning, preheat oven to 250 degrees.
• Cream eggs, sugar, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and vanilla in a mixer.
• Blend in the liquid from the raisin bowl (but not the raisins yet - they'll get crushed in the mixer if you add them now).
• Mix in the flour 1 cup at a time scraping the sides as necessary.
• Finally, stir in the raisins.
• Spray cooking spray into 6 empty and cleaned 12 oz vegetable cans (green bean cans work well) - don't forget to take the label off too!
• Fill cans 2/3 full and set them on a cookie sheet in the oven.
• Cook for 1.5 to 2 hours.
• Enjoy!

MARGARET'S RAISIN BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Heavily grease and flour the insides of three empty 15-ounce cans. In a medium heatproof mixing bowl, pour the boiling water over the raisins and baking soda. Set aside to cool. In a medium mixing bowl, sift together the flour, sugar and salt. Stir in the bran flake crumbs. Lightly beat together the egg and oil, and stir into the flour mixture. Stir in the cooled raisins and water. Divide the batter evenly among the 3 cans, filling about three-quarters of the way up. Bake on the lowest rack until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 40 to 45 minutes. Cool for about 10 minutes and run a knife along the sides of the can to remove. If packing as gifts, just wrap in the can!

MARY ANN'S BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350ºF.
• Cream butter and sugar.
• Add eggs and beat until blended.
• Beat in buttermilk.
• Add flour and baking soda and mix until all flour is moist.
• Add bananas and any options.
• Put into two 8x4 loaf pans and bake for 45-50 minutes.
• Remove from oven.
• Cool for 15 minutes and turn out of pan onto cooling rack.

BROWN BREAD WITH RAISINS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 325°F. Grease 2-quart casserole dish with shortening or cooking spray.
• In large bowl, beat all ingredients with electric mixer on low speed 30 seconds, scraping bowl constantly. Beat on medium speed 30 seconds, scraping bowl constantly. Pour batter into casserole.
• Bake uncovered about 1 hour or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Immediately loosen sides of bread with metal spatula and remove bread from casserole. Cool 30 minutes on cooling rack before slicing. Serve warm.

BROWN BREAD WITH RAISINS

Steps:

• Combine all ingredients and mix well.
• Spoon into a well-greased and lightly floured 8x4 inch loaf tin.
• Preheat oven to 350.
• Set bread aside for 30 minutes.
• Bake 45 minutes, or until done.
• Cool, and remove from tin, cooling completely.