Steamed Brown Bread,For Baked Beans

• 2 tablespoons butter
• 1 cup whole wheat flour
• 1 cup flour, all-purpose
• 1 cup cornmeal yellow
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 cups buttermilk
• 23 cup molasses
• 1 cup raisins, seedless

1. Daub paper towel with butter and rub evenly around sides and bottom of coffe cans or mold.
2. Set aside.
3. In bowl, combine flours, cornmeal, baking soda and salt.
4. Add buttermilk and molasses, blend until smooth.
5. Add raisins and mix until they are scattered throuhout mixture.
6. Scrape batter into prepared cans or mold.
7. Cover tightly with aluminum foil.
8. Place mold into large pot and fill with hot water, until water reaches 1/2 way up sides of mold.
9. With help place pot on stove and bring to a boil.
10. Cover pot.
11. Reduce heat and simmer for 3 hours.
12. Replenish water in pot every hour.
13. When ready, turn heat off.
14. With help, remove mold from pot and unmold by turning bread upside down.
15. To cut bread, wrap a piece of string around bread and pull it tight, through loaf.
16. It will easily cut warm bread into a clean slice.

butter, whole wheat flour, flour, cornmeal yellow, baking soda, salt, buttermilk, molasses, raisins

Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/steamed-brown-bread-for-baked-b-35611 (may not work)