Boston Brown Bread, AKA New England Brown Bread, is traditionally cooked in a can and comes out round, but this recipe uses a regular loaf pan. It’s packed with hearty, nutritious ingredients, with 100% whole grains and no refined sugar. It steams as it bakes, resulting in a super moist, soft bread. It’s great slathered with butter for a healthy breakfast or snack, and for a true New England experience you can serve it with baked beans for dinner on a cold winter’s night.
Boston Brown Bread is probably the easiest (and cheapest!) bread you’ll ever make. It’s a no-knead, yeast-free quick bread, everything is mixed up in one bowl for easy clean-up, and it’s healthy and nutritious.
It’s also egg-free, and easy to adapt to be vegan if you use a plant-based milk.
Most New England brown bread recipes require setting the bread in a baking dish of water to steam it, and baking it or steaming on the stovetop. This version is a bit easier and instead covers the loaf pan tightly with foil to trap the steam inside, so you don’t need to worry about giving it a steam bath.