Tin Can Bread 🔥 Boston Brown Bread

Grease old tin cans thoroughly with fingers.

Mix together 1 cup rye flour, 1 cup graham flour, and 1 cup cornmeal.

Add 3/4 teaspoon baking soda and a little salt to the flour mixture.

Blend the dry ingredients well.

Pour in 3 and 3/4 cups of molasses and mix.

Add buttermilk to the mixture and stir until combined.

Incorporate a generous amount of raisins and dried apples into the batter.

Pour the batter into the greased tomato cans.

Cover the cans with makeshift lids made of tin foil.

Boil the cans on the top of a wood stove for 3 and 1/2 hours.

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