Nana's Boston Brown Bread Recipe
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Ingredients: 1 C. dates cut up
1/2 cup raisins
2 tsp. baking soda
2 C.boiling water
2T. butter
2 C.sugar
2 beaten eggs
2 t.vanilla
4 C. flour
1t.salt
1//2 chopped nuts
6 20oz. coffee cans
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Directions:Sprinkle soda on dates and raisins. Add 2 cups boiling water. Let stand until cool. Cream 2 T. butter with 2 cups of sugar. Add 2 beaten eggs 2 t.vanilla. Add to date mixture a little at a time.Sift 4 cups of flour and 1tsp. salt and mix with date mixture. Add 1/2 cup chopped nuts.Put dough in greased No.2 can (20oz coffee can). It takes 6 of these cans.
Bake in 350oven for 45 minutes or longer until done Put on rack to cool. Wrap first in saran wrap then in foil and place in large can or box. This bread can be kept up to a month. |
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Notes: Mom used to serve this bread with cream cheese. It is hard to find this kind of bread in the store today but store bought couldn't compare to Mom's homemade. These recipe's make you appreciate all of the effort Mom put into to feeding us well.
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