New England Brown Bread

Name: New England Brown Bread
Yield: serves 4
Ingredients: 3 cups whole wheat flour; 1 cup cornmeal; 1 teaspoon salt; 2 teaspoons baking soda; 1 cup currants (optional); 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon (optional); 1/2 teaspoon ground allspice (optional); 2 eggs; 2/3 cup molasses; 2 cups buttermilk; 1/3 cup honey

December 9, 2011

Steaming bread in the slow cooker is a terrific, hassle-free way to bake bread of all kinds. Traditionally, the batter for this brown bread was poured into coffee cans and placed in deep kettles filled with water, then hung for hours over the fire to steam. Serve it with New England Baked Beans (opposite page) or toasted for breakfast with cream cheese.

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