BEANS AND BROWN BREAD

“Beans, beans, the musical fruit. The more you eat, the more you toot.
The more you toot, the better you feel. Then you sit down for another meal!”

Ha! Ha! Ha! What memories! I think every time we had homemade baked beans for Saturday’s supper (which was quite often) this was the popular saying at the table.

So what better way to spend a stormy Saturday than to make homemade bread and baked beans, continuing on from last week’s post with using recipes from family members that bring with them great memories. ❤️ Plus a new recipe.

What started this journey was reading an article from one of last week’s newspapers, The Guardian, and seeing recipes for baked beans and steamed brown bread. I decided to try that bread recipe but used my tried and true beans recipe passed down to me by Lorna Turner (my late husband’s grandmother). I usually make them in a pressure cooker but today I used a bean crock in the oven.

Back to the bread recipe.

I’ve never made steamed bread before and sadly this recipe gave no instructions on how to steam. I’m sure you’d know what to do but I didn’t. Thank goodness for Google. The other problem with her recipe? No oven temperature given. What? Although I’ve made bread before I’m not a master bread maker so I’m off to Google again for recommendations. Most said 350F. Ok then. Now after mixing the ingredients (no yeast in this recipe) I thought, what is this? It’s a liquid. Like no other bread I’ve ever made. But the recipe said pour the mixture into a loaf pan so that’s what I did.

Worried now that the bread would be awful I decided to make an old recipe of my mother’s for Porridge Bread. She always made it in large apple juice cans for my kids. They loved having the round slices, especially toasted. I follow that tradition. Great idea Mom.

While the porridge bread was rising the steamed brown bread was ready to come out of the oven. After baking for the suggested 2 1/2 hours it looked, well let’s try and be positive and say “It looked interesting.”.

Thank goodness it tasted good. Actually delicious. Dense but moist with a nice crunchy top. Yummy 😋

And the porridge bread?

As good as I remember. 🥰

What are your feelings regarding beans and homemade bread? Do you have a regular weekend meal? I’d love ❤️ to hear from you.

Can you believe I found this song?

Baked Beans and Brown Bread – Jerry Blodgett

Stay safe and healthy.

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