Comments on: Early American Brown Bread http://www.foodiegazette.com/early-american-brown-bread-from-wheres-mom Adventures in good eating -- recipes and food writing by Margaret "Meps" Schulte Tue, 31 Jan 2012 04:40:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Suellen http://www.foodiegazette.com/early-american-brown-bread-from-wheres-mom/comment-page-1#comment-1673 Suellen Tue, 26 Apr 2005 13:11:43 +0000 /?p=1743#comment-1673 I would like the recipe for a bread that I knew as HOBO bread. It was very dark like molasses was used in it, and I think it had dates or raisons in it. It was baked in a can. can. Thanks I would like the recipe for a bread that I knew as HOBO
bread. It was very dark like molasses was used in it, and
I think it had dates or raisons in it. It was baked in a can.
can. Thanks

]]> By: Meps http://www.foodiegazette.com/early-american-brown-bread-from-wheres-mom/comment-page-1#comment-3 Meps Sun, 28 Nov 2004 00:29:37 +0000 /?p=1743#comment-3 The cookbook I copied this from was a very basic one, and I don't think they expected their users to have "exotic" ingredients like molasses. You could probably use half molasses and half brown sugar, but you'd want to decrease the milk an equal amount, to keep the batter from being too runny. I always mistype the word molasses. That's because my crazy brother-in-law, Ed, always says it with a southern drawl: Mole-asses, as if it came from a poor hapless mole. The cookbook I copied this from was a very basic one, and I don’t think they expected their users to have “exotic” ingredients like molasses.

You could probably use half molasses and half brown sugar, but you’d want to decrease the milk an equal amount, to keep the batter from being too runny.

I always mistype the word molasses. That’s because my crazy brother-in-law, Ed, always says it with a southern drawl: Mole-asses, as if it came from a poor hapless mole.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.foodiegazette.com/early-american-brown-bread-from-wheres-mom/comment-page-1#comment-2 Anonymous Sat, 27 Nov 2004 17:27:12 +0000 /?p=1743#comment-2 My wife in a former marriage used to make this "early american brown bread, but I believe she used molasas in it. I could be completely off, but does this sound familier? My wife in a former marriage used to make this “early american brown bread, but I believe she used molasas in it. I could be completely off, but does this sound familier?

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