Boston Brown Bread

Total Time: 3 hrs 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 3 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 10
• 1 1/2 cups yellow cornmeal
• 2 cups unsifted all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 cups milk
• 1 1/2 buttermilk
• 3/4 cup dark molasses
• 1 cup dark raisins
• boiling water

Recipe

• 1 grease well two 1 lb sized coffee cans in large bowl sift together cornmeal, flour, salt and baking soda in small bowl, combine milk, buttermilk and dark molasses gradually add milk mixture to flour mixture.
• 2 beat with spoon just until combined.
• 3 stir in rasins.
• 4 spoon dough into greased coffee cans until two thirds full tie pieces of heavy foil tightly over the top of cans place cans on rack in a deep pot add boiling water to pot until the water comes half way up the sides of the cans cover pot and steam for 2 1/2 to 3 hours adding water as needed cool bread on rack.