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05/16/2008
Please please don't re-use empty cans to cook or heat anything in. Cans nowadays have a toxic plastic material called Bisphenol A (BPA) inside them to keep the metal can from affecting the taste of the food. Unfortunately the BPA is the same as has been used to make baby bottles and many other hard plastic water bottles. BPA has been linked to breast cancer and early puberty in women and when they tested very low doses on mice and rats they found the same plus diabetes, enlarged prostate and prostate cells prone to cancerous changes among the many health problems it can cause. The food that is in these cans is also contaminated by the BPA but then if you reuse the container by cooking or heating anything in them you release up to 50 times more of BPA into the food. Google BPA or check out Wikipedia's BPA page and it will make you not want to eat anything in cans anymore, period. Of course the chemical companies all say that the fears are unjustified just because a few rats and mice get sick doesn't mean anything. Sound like Big Tobacco some 20-30 years ago, huh? My sis-in-law who is a real pessimist says "Oh, well, these days everything is being found to give us cancer so why fight it?" I choose to fight it however and whenever I can, thank you very much.
By Nolasandy (Guest Post)
04/30/2008
These sound good. Do you have to bake this in a can? What size baking pan could you use, and how would you change the recipe for this, if at all?
By Ben Carter (Guest Post)
04/30/2008
Ingredients
1 tablespoon unsalted butter for greasing
1 1/2 cups brown-bread flour*
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup dark molasses
1 cup milk
1/2 cup dried currants or raisins Preparation1. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees.
2. Generously grease a 1-quart pudding mold or 1-pound coffee can. Combine the flour, baking soda and salt in a mixing bowl. Stir in the molasses and milk. Fold in the currants.
3. Fill the mold or coffee can with batter. It should come up about two-thirds of the way. Cover the top with foil and tie securely with a string to make it airtight.
4. Place in a deep baking pan and fill the pan with boiling water, to come halfway up the side of the mold.
5. Place in the preheated oven and allow to steam for 2 hours, checking the water level after 1 hour. Add more boiling water if needed. Check by sticking a skewer into the bread; it will come out clean when done. Remove string and foil and allow to cool for 1 hour before unmolding.
*A specialty of New England, brown-bread flour is a mixture of whole wheat, rye and cornmeal or johnnycake meal. It can be purchased already mixed or made by simply combining equal parts of wheat and rye flour and cornmeal.
Source InformationJasper White's Cooking from New England
Biscuit Books
By
04/29/2008
BOSTON BROWN BREAD
3 1/2 c. water
1 1/2 c. raisins
6 Tbsp. oil
1 1/2 c. brown sugar
2 eggs, beaten
1 tsp. salt
2 1/2 c. whole wheat flour
1 c. white flour
1 tsp. vanilla
1 Tbsp. baking soda
1/2 to 1 c. chopped nuts
Combine water and raisins in saucepan. Bring to a low boil. Boil 5 to 10 minutes. Cool. While this is cooling, combine oil, brown sugar, eggs, salt, whole wheat flour, white flour, vanilla and baking soda. Mix in cooled water and raisins, then nuts. Bake in greased soup cans. (May also use
1 pound vegetable cans.) Bake at 375 degrees for one hour. Let cool in cans for a moist Boston Brown Bread.
Below you can read previous posts and comments about this topic. The discussions on this page have been archived 2 times. Select a discussion and read the feedback here.
(Archived Apr 29, 2008)Boston Brown Bread
Answers:
By Michawn
By Ole Lulu
Boston Brown Bread
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. (11/10/2006)
By PICO
Mom's brown bread
Combine all ingredients in large bowl, and mix well Pour batter into greased coffee cans,2/3 full. Cover top with tin foil and steam 3 hours. Makes four 1 lb. loaves.
BROWN BREAD
Combine dry ingredients. add buttermilk and molasses , and mix thouroughly. Pour batter into 2 well greased 1 lb. coffee cans. Cover with was paper and secure with elastic band. Steam 2 hours. (11/11/2006)
By Megan's mom
By Mairmie
(Archived Nov 09, 2006)Boston Brown Bread
Directions
Mix raisins with water. Boil 5 minutes and cool. Add sugar, egg, shortening and salt. Sift and add flour and baking soda. Add nut meats and vanilla. Grease and flour four or five round tin cans. Bake mixture in cans at 350 degrees F for about an hour.
By Robin from Washington, IA
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