Boston Brown Bread

Total Time: 2 hrs 40 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 2 hrs 30 mins

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoons shortening
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 3/4 cup dark molasses
• 2 1/4 cups whole wheat flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 cup yellow cornmeal
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 3/4 cups buttermilk
• 3/4 cup raisins

Recipe

• 1 cream the shortening and sugar together.
• 2 beat in the egg and molasses.
• 3 beat in the flour through the buttermilk.
• 4 stir in the raisins.
• 5 spoon into 2 well-greased coffee cans, making them a little more than half full.
• 6 cover with greased lids or foil.
• 7 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.
• 8 cover and steam 2½ hrs.
• 9 replace boiling water periodically to maintain the level of liquid.