Boston brown bread in a can
 

Does anyone remember Boston Brown Bread in a can?


B&M Brown Bread with Raisins:


Burnham and Morrill made New England’s Finest Brown Bread with Raisins............sometimes called “Boston Brown Bread” in a can. Yes, it still comes in a can.

Good for “preppers”.............or just to have in the pantry during the winter months when the power might go out............ still manufactured in Portland, Maine.

You don’t have to be a doomsday prepper to enjoy it with your Boston Baked Beans........

Ingredients
Water, Whole Wheat Flour, Molasses, Dextrose, Rye Flour, Raisins, Whey, Degerminated Yellow Corn Meal, Baking Soda, Buttermilk, Salt, Corn Oil.

99 % FAT FREE

No cholesterol

Ready to serve right out of the can........with cream cheese or whatever..........or even plain, it’s still very good.

Very moist with the raisins in it. Has calcium and iron.......

I have fond childhood memories of Boston Brown Bread in a can - thanks for the memory boost!

You're welcome. Sometimes the simple things in life are remembered.

About a month ago, a young 40 year old friend of ours (our son's old schoolmate) was telling me how she literally brought tears to her dad's eyes when he walked in the door of their home in New Hampshire.........she had spent all day slowly simmering "home made" Boston Baked Beans in a large Dutch oven and served it with the Boston Brown Bread with raisins, from a can..........and you'd think she gave him a million dollars. It was his own mother's recipe that she had made every Sunday after church. They were French Canadians and I guess it's what their family did........it's what her grandmother did, without a doubt, and it brought tears to the son of that lady, now deceased.

When we first came to Vermont in 1970 I learned all about the tradition of making the baked beans on Saturdays....and that was predominately their supper.........no hot dogs, etc. JUST BEANS. Made from scratch.

Back in New Jersey, after my "boyfriend" at the time, told me he loved baked beans, I got a recipe and again, made it from scratch in a Dutch oven........well I made enough for an entire ARMY. I had no idea how much I would end up with.........after soaking the dry beans overnight, etc. I had never ever cooked before. They were tasty, for sure.
But not enough people to devour them.

I later found out his mom just used the canned beans...........ha ha.
So much easier. But, homemade always tastes better. Now I give him Bushes baked beans from a can.

Brown Bread and Baked beans
 

I'm also a NH native, and I think the first time I had anything other than home baked beans, hot dogs, and the brown bread you described for Saturday night supper was when I went to college! My folks made it interesting by sometimes using navy (pea) beans and sometimes using yellow eye beans for variety, but other than that, exactly the same. My wife Sue still makes home baked beans using the same recipe from time to time, and so does our daughter! Yesterday, on Sue's birthday, our son called from NYC, and he was all excited because our daughter, who also is in NYC, had just stopped by to drop something off for him, and she brought him some of the beans she had made the day before using, as he put it, "Gram's Recipe"! So the tradition of the greatness of home made baked beans continues with new generations and even outside New England!

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The young woman and her dad were born in Vermont, however, the grandmother and grandfather were born in Quebec, Canada......the other families I mentioned were from Glens Falls, New York and also Vermonters as well did the Saturday night baked beans tradition......

The young friend's dad is actually a neighbor of ours......and he'd rather have his mom's homestyle cooking than a lobster dinner. It truly brought tears to his eyes that his daughter would follow the grandma's recipe for his visit.

So often we wrack our brains to think of something "different" to prepare for guests.......when in reality, they'd much prefer simple home cooking, from their childhoods.

Another neighbor of mine, whose daughter was married to an Air Force General, would tell me that when they'd come to visit, his request was for her simple spaghetti and meatballs for supper..........ditto for his son who was also an Air Force pilot.......like the dad.

Sometimes all this "yuppie food" gets old .

Everyone has a "Gram's Recipe". Thanks for sharing...........

I remember at my grandmothers putting a thin slice of cheedar cheese on top of it, so good.

YES. When our supermarket no longer carried it.....I did find it at Amazon.com but had to buy a larger quantity which is fine with us.

I think you can buy it on Vermontcountrystore.com

Me too, we loved it with cream cheese on it on a Sunday evening as a light snack after having our big afternoon dinner.

Still available at Publix....just bought some last week

Very cute. Fact is that when one makes it from scratch you end up with too much**.....and I'm not into canning.

**for two people. Nice when you have a family to feed.

Boston Brown Bread with butter or cream cheese. Yum !

I remember it well!! I did get it at Publix awhile back.

sure do...can we buy it in Florida???
 

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Still available up here at Wegmans.

When my mom used to have her auxiliary members over for a meeting, brown bread with raisins and cream cheese along with finger sandwiches would be a staple item.
I bought some at Publix and when our neighborhood group had an evening event, it was served with cream cheese (just like mom) and was the hit of the evening. Something so simple can really bring back good memories. And I thank you for doing so.

All this talk about brown bread is making me hungry!

Yes, we used to keep the canned brown bread on our sailboat.
Also, bet you didn't know, there was a Danish bacon that came in a can. I think it was Crosse and Blackwell. Mighty good breakfast on a chilly morning on the water.

I have a can of B&M brown bread w/raisins in the pantry that I got at Publix - yummy. They also have the smaller glass jars of B&M baked beans.

Yes, we can get it at the Vermont Country Store via their website or at amazon.com

I think it was a popular offering in the 1950's and 1960's as you mention above............everything old is new again. Enjoy.

Sounds great.

Another one is Nutella. It was always the dusty jar on the top shelves because nobody bought it, now with a great marketing effort the stuff is everywhere.

The grandchilden actually love that stuff.................