Steamed All Bran Brown Bread Food

STEAMED BROWN BREAD

Steps:

• You will need 2 empty cans such as the ones in which fruit or tomato sauce come. Or you can use a mold.
• To prepare them, grease and flour generously.
• Combine dry ingredients in a medium bowl.
• Add buttermilk and molasses while mixing on low.
• Stir in raisins and mix only enough to distribute.
• Pour into prepared cans or mold. (Should be about 2/3 full).
• Cover with foil and secure with string.
• Place cans on a wire rack in the bottom of a large pot.
• Pour boiling water into the pot to reach about half way up the cans but not enough to float them.
• Put lid on pot and steam for 3 hours, checking water occasionally to make sure there is enough.
• To remove breads from cans, the bottoms of the cans can be "opened" with a can opener and the breads can then be pushed out. They come out more easily when the bread is still warm.

ALL-BRAN BROWN BREAD

Steps:

• Mix all-bran, milk, molasses and sugar. Add sifted ingredients. Mix well and bake in loaf pan at 375F for 1 hour.

STEAMED ALL BRAN BROWN BREAD

Steps:

• Combine all bran cereal, raisins, nuts, egg, buttermilk, and molasses.
• Sift flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.
• Add dry ingredients into wet mixture; stir just until combined.
• Fill quart cans that have been greased.
• This will fill 2 quart cans.
• Steam for 2-1/2 hours.

STEAMED CRANBERRY BROWN BREAD (CROCK-POT)

Steps:

• Coat the inside of a 13-oz coffee can with cooking spray.
• Combine first 6 ingredients in a large bowl.
• In a small bowl, combine buttermilk and molasses; stir well. Add to flour mixture, stirring just until moistened.
• Fold in dried cranberries and walnuts.
• Spoon mixture into coffee can. Cover with foil coated with cooking spray; secure with a rubber band.
• Place can in a crockpot; add enough hot water to crockpot to come halfway up sides of can.
• Cover with lid and cook on high-heat setting for 2 1/2-3 hours, or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
• Remove can from crockpot.
• Let bread cool, covered, in can on a wire rack for 5 minutes.
• Remove bread from can and let cool completely on wire rack.

HOMEMADE BOSTON BROWN BREAD

Steps:

• Remove one of your oven racks and preheat oven to 300°.
• Generously butter three 10-ounce coffee cans. In an extra large mixing bowl combine all the flours. Stir in cornmeal, baking soda, baking powder, salt and dried fruit.
• In a separate bowl, whisk the milk with the molasses. Slowly add to the dry ingredients, stirring until the batter is smooth and combined.
• Pour the batter into the greased coffee cans. Stand the cans in the center of the oven and bake for about 1 1/2 hours, or until the loaves are springy to the touch. Place cans on wire rack and let cool for about 10 minutes, then unmold. Slice bread into rounds and serve.
• When the loaves have reached room temperature, they can be wrapped in wax paper and placed in a thick plastic bag and stored in the refrigerator for up to 5 days.

NANNY'S BROWN BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. grease 3-4 vegetable cans or 2-3 coffee cans.
• In a medium bowl add raisins, baking soda, and butter.add in boiling water. Stir a little, and let cool.
• In a large bowl mix together flour and sugar. Mix in vanilla, egg, walnuts, and the raisin mixture. Stir unil well blended.
• Pour evenly into cans (or loaf pans if that's what your using). bake about 1 hour.

BOSTON BROWN BREAD

Steps:

• Cream the shortening and sugar together.
• Beat in the egg and molasses.
• Beat in the flour through the buttermilk.
• Stir in the raisins.
• Spoon into 2 well-greased coffee cans, making them a little more than half full.
• Cover with greased lids or foil.
• Set coffee cans on a rack or an inverted dinner plate in a deep kettle and add boiling water to come halfway up the sides of the cans.
• Cover and steam 2½ hrs.
• Replace boiling water periodically to maintain the level of liquid.

STEAMED BROWN BREAD

Steps:

• In a bowl, mix together dry ingredients. Make a well in the center.
• In a separate bowl, mix together buttermilk, molasses and oil. Pour into dry ingredients and mix until well blended.
• Spoon batter into prepared tins or baking dish. Cover tops with foil and secure with string.
• Place in slow cooker and pour in enough boiling water to come 1 inch up the sides of the dishes.
• Cover and cook on high for 2-3 hours. Unmold and serve warm.

IRISH BROWN BREAD

Steps:

• Heat oven to 425°F Coat a large baking sheet with cooking spray. In a large bowl, mix flours, oats, wheat germ, baking soda and salt.
• Whisk together buttermilk and honey. Add to flour mixture; stir to combine until soft dough forms.
• Turn dough out onto floured surface. Divide in half. Shape each half into a round loaf. Place loaves 3 inches apart onto prepared baking sheet; bake 10 minutes.
• Reduce temperature to 400°F Continue baking 10 minutes longer or until bread sounds hollow when tapped. Let cool 15 minutes.

IRISH BROWN BREAD

Steps:

• Sieve plain flour, salt, and soda into a bowl.
• Add in brown flour and wheatgerm.
• Rub in butter, mix in sour milk (or buttermilk) and onion and then mix to a very soft consistency.
• Divide dough between 2 greased loaf tins and cover with brown paper.
• Bake approx.
• 45 minutes at 375.
• Remove cover after 30 minutes of baking and continue baking for another 15 minutes.