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(10,629 posts)
Mon Mar 6, 2023, 03:35 AM Mar 2023

Boston Brown Bread in an Instant Pot

I like Boston baked beans. I used to be able to buy Boston baked bread as an accompaniment in most grocery stores, but not around here. So I tried making it, and found a recipe for doing it in an Instant Pot, rather than steaming it in a coffee can in the oven as is traditional. The result? Passable, although it needed more salt. Basically, it's equal parts whole wheat flour, rye flour, and cornmeal mixed with buttermilk and a leavening agent. I used yeast, and when I make this again I'll up the salt and add raisins.

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Boston Brown Bread in an Instant Pot (Original Post) Retrograde Mar 2023 OP
My mom used to make it in the coffee can. Being who she was I bet applegrove Mar 2023 #1
B&M used to be the commercial manufacturer. I wouldn't expect to see it in Colorado, but is it still hlthe2b Mar 2023 #2
Sure is! Publix has it. Phoenix61 Mar 2023 #3
Yes! 2naSalit Mar 2023 #5
Lived in Lexington 'til I was 10 ('54-'64) Nittersing Mar 2023 #7
That's right! 2naSalit Mar 2023 #8
Maybe ask them where you can buy it? Phoenix61 Mar 2023 #4
Looks like it's available online, several places... 2naSalit Mar 2023 #6
Update: second trial Retrograde Mar 2023 #9

applegrove

(123,027 posts)
1. My mom used to make it in the coffee can. Being who she was I bet
Mon Mar 6, 2023, 04:06 AM
Mar 2023

she reduced the salt for health reasons. I didn't like her Boston Bread though I loved the Boston Baked Beans she made from scratch (she soaked the beans overnight).

hlthe2b

(106,237 posts)
2. B&M used to be the commercial manufacturer. I wouldn't expect to see it in Colorado, but is it still
Mon Mar 6, 2023, 06:14 AM
Mar 2023

being sold?

2naSalit

(92,480 posts)
5. Yes!
Mon Mar 6, 2023, 09:24 AM
Mar 2023

A friend in Idaho gave me a can last year and said that she found it online. I cherished it as I ate it. Born in beantown and spent most of my childhood within 200 miles of it, I ate a lot of B&M style beans and brown bread, home-made and canned.

Thanks for the recipe, I will give it a try, there's nothing like brown bread, I don't care if it comes in a can or not.

Nittersing

(6,843 posts)
7. Lived in Lexington 'til I was 10 ('54-'64)
Mon Mar 6, 2023, 09:40 AM
Mar 2023

Franks and beans every Saturday, with brown bread on the side.

Yum

Retrograde

(10,629 posts)
9. Update: second trial
Sun Mar 12, 2023, 09:49 PM
Mar 2023

I took more care mixing the flours, and added raisins - the raisins made a big difference! The recipe I used called for using yeast and letting the mixture sit overnight - it did rise a little, but not a lot (unsurprising since the corn and rye flours don't have much gluten).

Now I want to try some traditional English steamed puddings.

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