Steamed Brown Bread Recipes

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.

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.

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.

Steps:

• Combine sugar,butter,egg and molasses.Sift in flours and soda.Add dry ingredients,alternate with milk.Add nuts and raisins.Mix well.Turn in a buttered bowl or mold that may set loosely in cooker.
• Cover bowl with wax paper.Place bowl on rack with water on cooker.Place cover on cooker.Allow steam to flow from the vent pipe 20 minutes.Place indicator weight on vent pipe for 40 minutes with stem at 10 pounds, That is all the way up.Allow stem to return to DOWN position.

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.