Steamed brown bread with currants and walnuts
8 servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| ½ | cup | All-purpose flour |
| ½ | cup | Whole-wheat flour |
| ½ | cup | Yellow cornmeal |
| ¾ | teaspoon | Ground cinnamon |
| ½ | teaspoon | Baking soda |
| ½ | teaspoon | Salt |
| 1 | cup | Low-fat buttermilk |
| ⅓ | cup | Molasses |
| ½ | cup | Dried currants |
| 2 | tablespoons | Chopped walnuts |
| x | Vegetable cooking spray | |
Directions
Combine the first 6 ingredients in a large bowl, and make a well in center of mixture. Combine buttermilk and molasses; stir well. Add to flour mixture, stirring just until moistened. Fold in currants and walnuts.
Spoon the mixture into a 13-ounce coffee can coated with cooking spray. Cover with aluminum foil coated with cooking spray; secure foil with a rubber band. Place the can in an electric slow cooker; add enough hot water to cooker to come halfway up sides of can. Cover with lid, and cook on high-heat setting for 2 hours and 50 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Remove can from water. Let bread cool, covered, in can on a wire rack for 5 minutes. Remove bread from can and let cool completely on wire rack.
Yield: 8 servings.
CALORIES 170 (13% from fat); PROTEIN 4.4g; FAT 2.4g (sat 0.5g, mono 0.3g, poly 1g); CARB 34.5g; FIBER 2.3g; CHOL 0mg; IRON 1.9mg; SODIUM 252mg; CALC 82mg.
Source: COOKING LIGHT magazine, 9/95.
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Submitted By IRIS GRAYSON On 08-30-95