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I’m very upset to hear that > While brown bread may have contained some molasses in the early 1900s, post-WWII it was usually made without. So Canadian brown b
by bee_rider 1y ago
I’m very upset to hear that
> While brown bread may have contained some molasses in the early 1900s, post-WWII it was usually made without. So Canadian brown bread is, unlike Boston-style bread, not sweet (see the 1909 quotation) and also distinct from Irish brown bread, though the latter may have inspired it.
Brown bread is sweet, and you are supposed to cut it up into little hockey pucks and toast it. It is the perfect shape when it comes out of the can.
- throaway5454 1y agoCan? Where in Canada is this canned brown bread at?
- wobblyasp 1y agoWe call it spoon bread in the east. True spoon bread is baked in an old tin can. Not sweet.
- bee_rider 1y agoIt isn’t, apparently, that’s what I’m upset about. Canada and New England are supposed go way back, longer than the countries. But apparently we didn’t share our bread technology advances.
- rapind 1y agoI've had it. You're really not missing out. I always assumed it was a depression era thing (canned bread!).
- bee_rider 1y ago> I always assumed it was a depression era thing (canned bread!). 1860’s apparently. https://www.britishfoodinamerica.com/A-Number-of-Historical-Figures-featuring-Bostonian-Foodways/the-lyrical/A-note-on-Boston-brown-bread/ https://www.britishfoodinamerica.com/A-Number-of-Historical-... > You're really not missing out. It it rare in matters of taste to be able to say it, but you sir or madam are objectively incorrect! Ok well, maybe that is a bit over the top. But anyway, since it comes in a can, hopefully anyone curious can just try it. Pop it in the toaster oven, put some cream cheese on it, and have it for breakfast. It is a treat, IMO.
- bregma 1y agoCheck the foreign foods section of your local supermarket. Probably right beside those chocolate sprinkles intended for making sandwiches.
- SECProto 1y agoThat's a weird (or perhaps regional) definition. Brown bread I've had is always molasses sweetened. Source: ontario and provinces east. The boston canned brown bread i always assumed was a touristy thing, not something regularly consumed.
- nucleardog 1y agoLived in BC, SK, and ON. I'm far enough east that I regularly hit up both Ottawa and Montreal. In my experience "brown bread" is a synonym for whole wheat bread. If you go order a sandwich and they ask what bread you want it on and you say "brown", you're getting whole wheat (or maybe 60% whole wheat... just not white). I'd be very confused if I ever got this molasses-sweetened bread everyone is talking about.
- qualeed 1y agoBC, AB, ON. Same as you, brown bread = whole wheat. Not sure I've even heard of molasses-sweetened bread, let alone eaten it.
- switchbak 1y agohttps://www.crosbys.com/sarahs-molasses-brown-bread/ https://www.crosbys.com/sarahs-molasses-brown-bread/ It’s made with ungodly amounts of molasses. My grandmother used to make it with lard or shortening, yikes.
- bee_rider 1y agoI bet you knew it was a treat, though. Compare to some folks’ daily sugar cereal diet… I dunno, unhealthy habits are usually unhealthy because they are habits.
- sellmesoap 1y agoMolasses has a lot of minerals in it, and the notion that eating fat makes you fat is a lie purpitrated by big sugar/grain that has lead to a lot of diabetes and heart desease, your grandmother knew where it was at! Also Big Sugar is an underrated band from Canada IMO