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Default Boston Brown Bread (BBB)

On Monday, January 20, 2014 12:50:20 AM UTC-6, Julie Bove wrote:
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> > Has anyone made a version of BBB that's as close to the "can" as

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> > possible?. Is rye flour is absolutely necessary? I see recipes that

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> > list it and recipes that don't. I will use whole wheat, cornmeal,

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> > molasses and raisins, but not loving the thought of hunting down rye

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> > flour. It's not impossible to find, I know that. The best of all

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> > worlds would be to find it in the bulk aisle, but I'm not visualizing

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> > rye flour at the two grocery stores I shop in with enough bulk bin

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> > variety to stock it.

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> I made it as a kid but don't remember where I got the recipe from or what
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> went into it. Only reason that I made it was that my dad was always saying
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> that he wanted brown bread. He would always get a confused look by
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> waitstaff. We knew that what he wanted was wheat bread but we could never
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> get him to say the right word. So every year or so, I'd make him some brown
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> bread. He never liked and couldn't figure out why I was making it.


Can anyone else make heads or tails of this shit? You father liked wheat bread but called it brown bread because for some reason he couldn't learn to call it wheat bread. So then you decided to start a yearly tradition of making Boston Brown Bread for him, even though he didn't like it.

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeahhhhhh.....