Simple Brown Bread Recipe

Name: Simple Brown Bread
Cook time: 55 min
Total time: 55 min
Yield: 8-10 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1/2 cup sugar; 1/2 cup molasses; 4 tablespoons shortening; 2 eggs; 1 teaspoon salt; 2 teaspoons baking powder; 1 cup white flour; 2 cups graham flour; 2 cups buttermilk

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Four old-fashioned brown bread recipes—three baked and one steamed—featuring molasses, graham flour, and simple pantry ingredients.

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Simple Brown Bread
Brown Bread - 1
Brown Bread - 2
Steamed Brown Bread

Brown Bread Recipes

This webpage is offering four classic variations of brown bread that harken back to traditional, no-fuss home cooking.

Brown Bread Recipe - 1, a versatile option that combines sugar, molasses, shortening, eggs, and a mix of white and graham flours with buttermilk. Baked at 350 degrees for 45-55 minutes in loaf pans, it invites optional additions like raisins or nuts for extra texture.
Recipe - 2, which incorporates sour and sweet milk alongside graham and white flours, plus nut meats, dates, or raisins, resulting in a moist, flavorful bread after about 45 minutes in the oven.
Recipe - 3, simplifies things further with whole wheat and white flours, sugar, molasses, and sour milk, baked at a slightly lower 325 degrees. It’s a blend-and-bake approach that yields two loaves in roughly 45 minutes, with raisins as an optional twist.
Steamed Brown Bread Recipe - 4, a unique steamed version using sweet milk, graham and wheat flours, and molasses. Steamed for about an hour, it offers a denser, moister alternative to oven-baked breads.

Simple Brown Bread

1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup molasses
4 tbsp shortening
2 eggs
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 cup white flour
2 cups graham flour
two cups buttermilk

Preheat oven 350 degrees

Instructions
Cream sugar and shortening, add molasses and eggs. Combine all dry ingredients and add to cream mixture alternating with buttermilk. Beat 2 minutes. Grease and flour to loaf pans generously. Pour into pans. Bake 45 to 55 minutes. Raisins and nuts may be added if desired.
Total Cook Time - 45 to 55 minutes
Equipment - loaf pan
Servings about 8-10 servings

Brown Bread - 1

2 cups graham flour
1 cup white flour
1/2 cup molasses
1 tbsp soda
1 teaspoon salt (scant)
1 cup sour milk
1 cup of sweet milk
2 tablespoons butter
3/4 cup nut meats, dates or raisins

Preheat oven 350 degrees

Instructions
Mix dry ingredients in bowl. Add molasses, milk, melted butter, nutmeats, dates or raisins. Stir just enough to mix well. Bake in 2 regular bread pans about 45 minutes or until bread comes away from edge of pan.
Total Cook Time - 45 minutes
Equipment - bread pans
Servings about 8-10 servings

Brown Bread - 2

1 cup of whole wheat flour
1 1/2 cup white flour
1/4 cup sugar 1/2 cup molasses
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons soda
2 cup sour milk

Preheat oven 325 degrees

Instructions
Put all ingredients in mixing bowl and blend or mix. Raisins may be added if desired. Bake about 45 minutes in 2 bread pans.
Total Cook Time - 45 minutes
Equipment - bread pans
Servings about 8-10 servings

Steamed Brown Bread

1/2 cup of molasses
1/2 cup sugar
2 cups sweet milk
about 1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cup graham flour
1 1/2 cup wheat flour
scant T. soda

Preheat oven 350 degrees

Instructions
Mix all ingredients together. Put in steamer or greased large double boiler. Steam until done, about 1 hour.
Total Cook Time - 1 hour
Equipment - steamer or greased large double boiler
Servings about 8-10 servings

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