Molasses Brown Bread

Molasses Brown Bread

Do you like bread?

Of course you do!

But have you ever tried Molasses Bread?

Show of hands those that have.

I don't see a lot of hands going up.

You can make bread by hand.

Back breaking labour if you ask me

Must have been a man that invented the mixer.

As he want his lovely wife to make bread, but didn't want her back broken

Anyways, follow the recipe below

Let the rolls rise

Then cook them to perfection

Ingredients:

1 cup warm water
1 tsp. sugar
1 Tbsp. yeast
3/4 cup Crosby’s Fancy Molasses
1 cup rolled oats
2 Tbsp. butter
2 tsp. salt
1 cup boiling water
1 cup cold water
2 cups whole wheat flour (spooned in)
4 1/2 cups flour (spooned in)

Stuff you will need

A mixer, like a Kitchenaid
Mixing bowl
8x13 inch baking dish + 1 bread loaf pan, or
2 x bread pans

Directions

Add 1 cup boiling water, whisk, and then add 1 cup cold water.  Dissolve the sugar in the warm water.  Then sprinkle the yeast over the water.  Leave for 10 minutes.

Add molasses, rolled oats, butter and salt.  Mix that together with the yeast, sugar water.

Add flour gradually and let your mixer knead the bread dough for 10 minutes.

Cut dough in half and place in two large bread pans that have been well greased or lined with parchment paper. (Or like I did above, make Molasses Buns)

Cover each pan with a dishtowel and set in a warm place to rise until almost double in size (about 1 1/2 hours).

Remove dishtowels and bake at 325 F for about an hour.  The buns only took about 35 minutes.

When ready, remove from oven and let cool about five minutes before removing from pans to cool on a bread rack.

While the buns were cooling, I brushed the tops with melted butter.

Comments and suggestions are ALWAYS welcome

Molasses Buns

Molasses Buns

I understand that people from Newfoundland call these "Lassy Buns"

I love the Mortal and Pestle that Tonya got me for Christmas one year.

It is super heavy, but will it ever do a nice job

All the ingredients into the mixer

Tonya INSISTED that I make ginger bread men

You can see that I did make a few traditional cookies here

Then they PUFFED UP!

Ingredients

1 cup molasses

1 cup melted butter

1/2 cup milk

4 1/2 cups flour

1 cup sugar

2 tsp cinnamon

2 tsp cloves

2 tsp baking soda

1 egg

pinch of Salt

Stuff you will need

Cookie sheet

Parchment paper

Mixing bowl

Directions

Pre-heat the oven to 350 F.

Combine melted butter and molasses and stir, then add milk and egg. 

Mix in remaining ingredients, then roll out on a floured surface, to a 1/2 inch thickness.  

Cut into desired shapes and place on a greased cookie sheet.  

Bake at 350 F for 15-20 minutes.  

Turn out on a wire rack and cool completely.

Comments and suggestions are ALWAYS welcome.