Boston Bran Bread

Submitted by Sharon123

"A quick bread packed with healthy ingredients! Goes great with baked beans or for breakfast with cream cheese! Adapted from Cook Now Serve Later cookbook by Readers Digest. Enjoy!"

 

• Ready In: 1hr 25mins
• Ingredients: 10
• Yields: 1 loaf

ingredients

• 2 cups whole wheat flour
• 1 cup white flour
• 1⁄4 cup wheat germ
• 1⁄4 cup wheat bran (or oat bran)
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1⁄2 cup raisins
• 1 1⁄2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 3⁄4 cups buttermilk
• 1 3⁄4 cups molasses
• 1⁄2 cup brown sugar, firmly packed

directions

1. Preheat oven tro 350*F. Mix the flours, wheat germ, bran, salt, and raisins in a large bowl, set aside.
2. In a medium bowl, stir together baking soda and 1/4 cup of the buttermilk. Stir in the remaining buttermilk, molasses, and brown sugar. Add the liquids to the dry ingredients, stirring until just combined; do no overmix! Spoon into a lightly greased 9"x5"x3" loaf pan.
3. Bake for 1 1/4 hours or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the bread comes out clean. Loosen the loaf and turn out onto a wire rack; let cool completely. Cut in thin slices and serve with cream cheese or butter. This bread goes great with baked beans. Enjoy!

4. Note:

5. To store, wrap in aluminum foil or seal in 2 plastic bags.Quick bread will store at room temperature for 2 to 3 days.

Reviews

[Engrossed]

Wowee! This is soooo good. I'm so happy to have found a brown bread recipe that doesn't need to be steamed. This is so easy and has lots of healthy whole grains. My Hubby wants me to make this often. I started making it before I realized I didn't have enough of some ingredients so had to adapt: I used oat bran and had to use part buttermilk, part heavy cream, part lemon juice which really made it foam up. I also had to use part molasses, part brown sugar karo, and part honey. It overflowed my large loaf pan but did bake in 75 minutes. Thank you for this wonderful recipe Sharon. Made in honor of Sharon's DH via kittencalskitchen.com

 

[lauralie41]

This isnt a bread I would normally make but wanted to give it a try and happy I did. A nice rich flavor from the molasses and the buttermilk, love the raisins, and liked how easy this was to make. Served with Sharon's recipe #73033, Allrighty then Scrambled Eggs - Paula Deen, and had a lovely breakfast. Made and reviewed for Kittencal's CookAThon for Sharon in the vegetarian forum.

 

[Kittencalrecipezazz]

this is delicious if toasted in a toastser oven topped with honey and that is what I did, I'm going to make another soon and add in some assorted seeds, I loved this thanks for sharing Shar! this was made for KK's Chef's Pick forum game

 

[CoffeeB]

This brown bread tasted a bit different than I"m normally use too. It could be the 1 cup of recipe#404288. I used that along with 1 cup white and 1 cup wheat flour. The molasses really comes thru quite intense also and I believe made the consistency of this recipe different than the normal bread texture of breads/muffins. I like it for a different change-up and I absolutely love your nutritious flour recipe (posted above). :-) Made for KK"s Chef's Pick~ p.s..I should mention I got 6 muffins and 4 small loaves.

 

[kaec7628]

Oh man, this bread has the most wonderful flavor!! I didn't have wheat germ so I used 1/2 cup of wheat bran (my first time using bran) and left out the raisins. I will be making this one often, this is really gooooooood! Thanks.