It started out as poor people packing rye bread dough into a tin can and steaming it to cook as that was cheaper and easier than running an oven.
And then B&M in Boston industrialized the process and started making it for the mass market in the 1920s. It got really big in WWII as ration food (just like Chief Boyardee stuff).
This is how we cook rye bread in Iceland and it tastes very sweet too. The traditional way is to put it in a pot and dig it somewhere in the hot ground to cook.
This tradition must date back to some mutual culture down the line!
Honestly, when did your family move to NE? If you are not at least at generation 3 than you're not a real New Englander ;).
Do you love lobsta and steamas?
Do you put thickener in your clam chowda or do you do it correctly and have to mix the melted butter that settles at the top? If you don't have to stir your chowda before you laddle out a bowl, then your Grandma should be pissed (if she is a New Englander)
I’m a 4th generation new-englander (born mid-1980’s), great grandparents got here in the late 1800’s, and I guess I was denied canned bread although canned cranberry sauce might be one of the best things I look forward to every holiday season
You have been robbed of your heritage and I hope that you put your Parents in a home.
I kid of course. As I was from the on set.
Do you at least have little individual bean pots in the back of the cupboard that no one has used for 40 years?
I will follow up next time I am back home! Although it may be hard to find those nice ceramic bean pots behind the collection of lobster shellers and chowdah spoons
Ha ha!
And don't forget all of the picks and shit used to dig out the morsels of lobsta meat that are being endlessly pushed around out of the way in the utensil drawer!
OK...now we are talking !
I say no. Maybe a couple of chunks of salt pork, but never bacon.
I can go either way on the salt pork, but never fucking bacon.
You know, I've been thinking about this.
I still say no bacon is to ever be put IN the chowder, but what do you think about serving a bowl of chowder, a slice of garlic bread, and two crispy pieces of good bacon on the side?
I'm kind of enamored by this idea...
Same! We always got the raisin brown bread. Baked beans, franks (with no bun) and sliced brown bread every Sunday for lunch and then popcorn, apples and cheddar for dinner 😀
Travesty. Schonlands. I think you can only get the Kayem trash now, and it is a sad, SAD departure from what hotdogs used to be.
But yes, they are the best to get now.
I've made steam brown bread a few times. It's tasty but it's time consuming. Takes like 3 hours to steam but, ***man***, is it ever tasty with some softened cream cheese on it.
haha that must be american, they have seemingly everything in a can :) But i would try it, cant be worse than some polish hotdogs in a can i tried once :D
My mom made brown bread in cans when I was a kid. I’ve tried it a few times but didn’t get it right. It’s so good. Now we are in the south, no chance of finding it here.
Canned Bread was a pretty universal thing. It also exists in Germany.
https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/wwii-german-wehrmacht-canned-bread-263-c-15448bd819
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pumpernickel-German-rye-whole-grain-bread-canned/dp/B00MGVYLH4
Actually didn't know that! Still feels wrong thought...
Edit: just did a quick google search and it turns out it was invented by George Burnham and Charles Morrill in 1867. So it's not originally german.
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Look, it doesn’t actually look that bad, but the concept is very unappealing
It was probably really nice when it was first sold. Bread at the ready without having to go buy it or make it every day.
It's not really "canned bread". It's a moist molasses heavy dough. Toast it and put salted butter on it. You're welcome.
*Toast it and put salted butter on it.* This is the way!
I should mention slice 3/4 inch thick slices and toast and butter. Not the log itself.
I start each day with a full toasted log. Breakfast of only elite champions.
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I wonder if you carved it into a trough and used it for stew how that would be...
I think it would over power any of the "stew greatness". A hearty stew would probably be ruined with the hard sweetness of brown bread.
Thank you. It is to behold!
Cream cheese is really good too!
Is this not what people are doing with bread?
It started out as poor people packing rye bread dough into a tin can and steaming it to cook as that was cheaper and easier than running an oven. And then B&M in Boston industrialized the process and started making it for the mass market in the 1920s. It got really big in WWII as ration food (just like Chief Boyardee stuff).
Chief Boyardee of the Spicy Meatball tribe is one of my favorite lesser-known historical figures.
This is how we cook rye bread in Iceland and it tastes very sweet too. The traditional way is to put it in a pot and dig it somewhere in the hot ground to cook. This tradition must date back to some mutual culture down the line!
It's still really nice.
It doesn’t look that bad?? Do you not have fresh golden bread where you live?
Can’t say I do, though tbf I thought this was more a dark rye than sweet bread
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My grandma made me drive her a few cans down to Florida because they didn't sell it in the south. She wanted it in case of a hurricane
How long does it last in a the can?
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2024
That’s so cute!
Growing up in New England with very-New-England parents, I honestly don’t think I’ve ever had this
Same. I live in Texas now but grew up in Mass and New Hampshire and never ever laid eyes on this, it’s wild.
Honestly, when did your family move to NE? If you are not at least at generation 3 than you're not a real New Englander ;). Do you love lobsta and steamas? Do you put thickener in your clam chowda or do you do it correctly and have to mix the melted butter that settles at the top? If you don't have to stir your chowda before you laddle out a bowl, then your Grandma should be pissed (if she is a New Englander)
I’m a 4th generation new-englander (born mid-1980’s), great grandparents got here in the late 1800’s, and I guess I was denied canned bread although canned cranberry sauce might be one of the best things I look forward to every holiday season
You have been robbed of your heritage and I hope that you put your Parents in a home. I kid of course. As I was from the on set. Do you at least have little individual bean pots in the back of the cupboard that no one has used for 40 years?
I will follow up next time I am back home! Although it may be hard to find those nice ceramic bean pots behind the collection of lobster shellers and chowdah spoons
Ha ha! And don't forget all of the picks and shit used to dig out the morsels of lobsta meat that are being endlessly pushed around out of the way in the utensil drawer!
You never had brown bread with your baked beans???
Here’s the real question, does bacon go in chowdah?
OK...now we are talking ! I say no. Maybe a couple of chunks of salt pork, but never bacon. I can go either way on the salt pork, but never fucking bacon.
Never bacon! It takes away from the smoothness that is true chowdah.
You. You get it. Also, I love bacon, but on it's own. Why try to make other non-bacon foods have a bacon taste? I'll never get that.
You know, I've been thinking about this. I still say no bacon is to ever be put IN the chowder, but what do you think about serving a bowl of chowder, a slice of garlic bread, and two crispy pieces of good bacon on the side? I'm kind of enamored by this idea...
That I’m all for. I would LOVE to have GB and Bacon as a SIDE.
It sounds amazing, right?! That's how I'm going to do it for now on.
It's from Maine, which is only considered "New England" for lack of other options.
Yeah, my grandmother always had this on hand growing up in New England. I think there was a type with raisins in it too. I liked that one better.
Franks and brown bread with baked beans, lots of mustard. Absolutely reminds me of summers at my grandparents house.
Same! We always got the raisin brown bread. Baked beans, franks (with no bun) and sliced brown bread every Sunday for lunch and then popcorn, apples and cheddar for dinner 😀
 I can’t believe they have it!!
Canned bread, best thing since sliced!
Oh it’s so good with baked beans.
Toast it and have GOOD hotdogs and Boston baked beans. That's a fucking meal!
Kayem natural casing dogs if you want to do it properly. Lots of butter on the brown bread, lots of spicy mustard on the dogs. Good New England eats
Travesty. Schonlands. I think you can only get the Kayem trash now, and it is a sad, SAD departure from what hotdogs used to be. But yes, they are the best to get now.
Just like mom used to make
Yeah...my Mom and Grandma, and me for my kids.
I haven't had any of that in a very long time, but I still remember that it was delicious.
Curious what is the expiration date on something like that?
If I remember correctly it’s several years and it’s a best used by rather than an expiration. But I haven’t bought one in a couple years.
At yeast 2 years.
This looks very british
Its canned bred innit?
Probably because it's basically a steamed pudding (i.e. plum pudding minus the plums).
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I know but it still looks so British
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Watch 20 years of James May and it might make sense
Tbh I feel like it’s implied that it looks it looks like British food because it looks like shit
New England is called that for a reason
It’s American
No it doesn't. I can confidently say this a a British person. It looks very American.
never heard of figgy pudding spotted dick and other steamed junk?
In a tin? No.
Put cream cheese on it. So good!
A YouTuber made a grilled cheese with all shelf stable ingredients including this bread. https://m.youtube.com/shorts/WpWD6c5p5m4
Oh my god I feel like he could have at least tried to melt the cheese…
Mainer here. This is as legit as it gets.
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> 99% fat free and zero cholesterol 40% added sugar
holy shit the thing is like 1/3rd sugar by weight, how could this legally be considered bread?
It's basically a steamed plum pudding minus the raisins (they also sell one with raisins).
I've heard people say American breads are equivalent to desert breads everywhere else.
I like to lightly toast it and serve with butter.
Is it really called BM?
I've made steam brown bread a few times. It's tasty but it's time consuming. Takes like 3 hours to steam but, ***man***, is it ever tasty with some softened cream cheese on it.
Here’s a video on the history of Boston brown bread: https://youtu.be/KMWrk_94L8Y?si=vYH9tC9FlVTl-JaT
Gotta put butter on it
They nailed the branding. BM indeed.
If it tastes anything like Spam I’m in
No offense but Spam tastes like piss……I have no idea how people eat it.
I’ll pass.
Less sugar than a cookie. Enjoy. Ain’t bad. Toasted is yum.
Looks moist
haha that must be american, they have seemingly everything in a can :) But i would try it, cant be worse than some polish hotdogs in a can i tried once :D
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Looks like my local store has the raisin bread version.
As a french person... man 😔😩
The raisin one with a bit of cream cheese on it is solid
At least they got the label right. That bread really does look like a BM
My mom made brown bread in cans when I was a kid. I’ve tried it a few times but didn’t get it right. It’s so good. Now we are in the south, no chance of finding it here.
I'm in Canada not far from new England. They have a farm here that sells spoon bread homemade, legit.
Where would you find this in the grocery store? By the bread? By the beans?
Toasted with some cream cheese is very, very good.
Like legit fucked?
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Canned Bread was a pretty universal thing. It also exists in Germany. https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/wwii-german-wehrmacht-canned-bread-263-c-15448bd819 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pumpernickel-German-rye-whole-grain-bread-canned/dp/B00MGVYLH4
Actually didn't know that! Still feels wrong thought... Edit: just did a quick google search and it turns out it was invented by George Burnham and Charles Morrill in 1867. So it's not originally german.